We extended our reservation in Jax Beach for another month. We called around to check out our options and didn’t have much luck. It’s the season to do marina renovations at St. Augustine City Marina causing the nearby marinas to be handling their overflow. We called some other marinas in cute places. They are full of boats. It doesn’t take many catamarans to fill up the available wide slips. So, we are happy that we have a slip at all.
There is a wonderful casual seafood spot called Dockside right here in the ‘harbor’. It’s an easy walk and the seafood is good and cheap.
There is also a funky Taco place about a block away. We noticed that it was always packed so, naturally, we had to try it. Also, good food and good prices.
The weather is better than Virginia, no snow, but it isn’t everything we had hoped for. When the wind dies down and the sun peaks out, the temperature drops. When the wind and rain pick up, the temp goes up too.
Mike has been focusing on replacing the outdoor calk. It was getting a little discolored and looking a bit shabby. We are on a floating dock with half-length finger docks. So, we can rearrange the boat in the slip and reach most spots from the dock. We tie her closer to the dock on the side that we’re working on. When we need to do the bow, we’ll flip her around and park bow-in.
We’re getting some spring cleaning done early. It wasn’t the original plan but at least we didn’t have to winterize the boat. Soon, we’ll start planning our return north. We’ll pick some fun spots that we missed on the way down and revisit some old favorites.
Low temp last night was 33 degrees but that is an outlier. The average range we have been seeing is 50s-60s.
We were here for the tornado watches.
We did decide to heed the warning and went to the marina office building to wait out the storm. Lots of wind and rain. No tornados for us.
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