Busy bees today. Boat cleaning and laundry, getting squared away with the dock master and figuring out how to get fuel, what amenities we can use and other little marina details. Decided to rent a car in order to easily do some provisioning — groceries for the weekend and a resupply of wine and bubbly. We also had some boat gizmos we’ve been trying to find (flexible squeegee, fender hanging “controllers” to make it easy to change positions) and looked up the nearest West Marine. The basic rule of marine shopping is that anything you could purchase at a regular hardware store is about four times as expensive once the word “boat” is added to the description. This West Marine Store was the largest one we’ve ever seen. And they had everything we wanted and more including a couple of pairs of shorts for each of us. It’s hot here! Hooray. And our traveling wardrobes were heavily weighted toward the wintery temperatures we had on the first 3/4 of the trip. A treat was lunch at Blue Moon Fish Company in Ft. Lauderdale by the Sea. This is a place we’ve visited many times before — once in our Glacier Bay fishing boat when it was in Ft. Lauderdale getting new engines. They did some remodeling since we were last there — very nice. And lunch was terrific. Cleo and Jim Comerford arrive tomorrow. Can’t wait!
