To Fernandina Beach
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 2 May 2011 22:07
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En Route to Fernandina
Beach
   Off at eight
fifteen to get to the Bridge of Lions for the eight
thirty opening, I was actually 'cut up' by a cruiser.
Not showing that my feathers had been ruffled, I sweetly waved and took the
offenders picture, he swiftly left the scene.
   I was sorry not to
have explored St Augustine (pronounced St Augusteen)
but Bear has promised me a week on our trip south. We had planned to spend time
here but that was taken waiting for the non-space launch. In Titusville I had
picked up brochures for the area, there's loads to do and visit and from our
passing by, the town looks really smart with loads of character AND a fort. See
Bears finger twitch at the thought of a cannon.
    We rounded the
corner from the fort and head to head way past the ICW channel to get to the last red buoy before I could turn left. Beez Neez saw
the open sea, had seen a yacht behind her putting up sails so I had a devil of a
job to get her to do the left turn. Sorry Beez, ICW as the Gulf Stream in these
winds are not for you. We have been told it is quite horrid out there due to the
last front stirring things up.
  Beez soon steady, tucking in behind a local, the
wide water narrowing into a deep river, houses on
both sides.
  We saw some
oddities including this back garden, complete with Ronald
McDonald along the way.
       We passed the
usual things we have come to expect but then.............................
  Now this is
a first, we watched this chap for miles, even his
little fingers had muscles
    The
next skinny bit looked like Beez had taken to being an All
Terrain Vehicle, clearly on dry land
     We
were actually in a deep channel watching Chums leave
by another channel out to open water
     Next was a mini dockyard THEN IT HAPPENED - we saw the Wise
Owl OWLNAPPED (own blog)
       We found ourselves in an industrial area, fishing girls at the ready and anchored
behind the marina. Bear clearly out of sorts due to the Wise Owl incident, he
couldn't even see the funny side of two birds using marker 23 as a 'rudies post'
  Bear went over to
converse with the superintendent who put up a recon spotter
plane
ALL IN ALL IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG
NIGHT
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