New water out the portholes, finally. Well our month at Jekyll Island Georgia is over. Never, would we have thought that we would be at the same marina for that long. Especially Jekyll Island, it’s really not that big of an island! We originally stopped for only one day but then when the weather was excessively cold we stayed a second day and then a third.

By the time the weather let up it was close to 2 weeks and once we’d paid for that we were able to stay the rest of the month for free. During the month we worked on projects on the boat inside at first when it was cold and then outside when it got warm enough. Finally we were facing committing to paying more money to spend longer and we made the break.

With the time we spent there we were able to prepare the boat better for our time in the Bahamas, visit with friends make new friends as well as order things like spare parts to carry with us for the rest of our trip.

With regret we said goodbye to all our friends at Jekyll Island and promised to try to meet up with them again some other time and place. Then we motored off into the ICW. Yesterday after a relatively short trip down the ICW we moored at Fernandina Beach Florida. I’m pleased to announce if folks, the water we now see is Floridian water. The gift shops all have Florida t-shirts in them and yesterday we ate ice cream out in front of a shop, because… wait for it, it was warm enough to want ice cream AND warm enough to eat it outside.

Today it’s another day all together, but I’m busy reveling in yesterday so please don’t bother me with the fact that today the temperature is about 45, a full 20 degrees colder (durn cold fronts!!).