30⁰37’13” N – 081⁰28’51” W
WE’RE IN FLORIDA “SOMEDAYERS”!!!!!!! That’s right guys and gals; we’ve made it to our final state of this trip. So far, if your keeping track, we have been in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and now Florida. What a trip it has been so far. I also feel like we should get credit for North Dakota as well. Why? You might ask. Because up till a day ago the temperature has felt like that’s where we were (And because we watch the whole “Deadwood” HBO series, so we feel like we now the place too). Yesterday we sailed down the Cumberland River, past Cumberland Island and the U.S. Navy sub base there, I was able to get one picture of a sub before the Nave started shooting at us (just kidding… they didn’t see me take it). We also sailed past Old Fort Fernandina; if you look close you can see the shore batteries. We got to Fernandina on Amelia Island yesterday at about 1300hrs and just relaxed, and walked around the town (cute little town by the way) until a friend and former crew member of Capt. Greg’s got off work. Donna was the cook on his first trip down the ICW, and true to her former crew position, took us out to a great little sea food place called “The Surf”. We had a great time and made a new friend as well. At the next table over there were two couples having dinner, they saw us all in our Banana Winds crew shirts and tried to put together our positions on their own. “LT” was wearing a wind breaker over his shirt (so they couldn’t see he was wearing one) so they assumed that he was the owner and Captain, and Donna (who was also not wearing a crew shirt) they thought was his wife. And that just left Greg, Gaffman, and me as the hired hands. Boy, were they wrong!!!! We got to talking and set the story straight. They were very nice folks and one of the ladies (the one who thought she had us figured out) posed with Donna for a photo.
This morning we got up at about 0730hrs, and the captain and I had breakfast with Donna before we fueled up, watered up, and shoved off at about 0945hrs. We are planning to make it to St. Augustine today. Till then “Somedayers”, Banana Winds standing by on 16… Clear.
