Finally, one of our greatest finds . . . we were rejoined with Don and Theresa, GREAT ESCAPE. After having its bottom cleaned and painted GREAT ESCAPE is leaving Sadler Marine and SONATA will rest there for Charlie to complete some much needed cosmetic work while Bonnie makes a trip to Virginia Beach. Only some 775 miles from mile marker "0", bouy #36, Norfolk Waterside.
Charlie's Chief Machinist Mate when Charlie was Chief Engineer on the USS Newman K. Perry (DD-883), back in 1967-68, found us and Bill and Joanna joined us for dinner and reliving old times.
We found Mary's for brunch; two eggs over easy on biscuits with sausage gravy, grits, and hashbrowns . . . so much for the fountain of youth.
We also found Flagler College housed in what used to be the Flagler Hotel (Henry Flagler, part of the beginnings of Standard Oil, best known for the railroads he built down Florida out to Key West).
In St. Augustine, tourist again, we found the Fountain of Youth down this Spanish Moss draped street.
As we come through New Smyrna Beach we turn just before we pass Bonnie's sister's new Florida condo, in one of the buildings on the left side of the picture.
Just a pretty picture on the way from Titusville to Daytona. Rough open water is behind us and the waterway will be our travels to Portsmouth. Beauty is everywhere.
Hugging the dock pile for breakfast. It is said that the manatee are friendly and has hugged persons cleaning the bottoms of their boats. A shock, but harmless.
kThe morning we are to leave Titusville we see our first manatee. The manatee appears to have rubbed alongside SONATA and scraped off some of our blue bottom paint. The manatee is eating vegetation growing on the dock pilings. Believe the animal is some 6-8 feet long.
Passing the Cape we could see NASA in the distance but having had Houston we went on by to Titusville.
There was an morning of excitement as the Sheriff, then the Department of Homeland Security, raced past us . . . then a helicopter overhead . . . all must have been a drill. They then stopped, talked, and ambled back to whereever they came from.
The signs along the waterway are interesting in that you must read the small print. At first blush it would appear you are in a slow, no wake, zone . . . read the small print. Many boats were passed by SONATA when they did not read the small print . . . and we were going 9 to 10 miles per hour...
John is off to Hilton Head, Bonnie and Charlie are again underway, "Resume Normal Safe Operation." On our way back up to Palm Beach, then Vero Beach, Titusville, Daytona, St. Augustine, and Jacksonville.
Finally, one of our greatest finds . . . we were rejoined with Don and Theresa, GREAT ESCAPE. After having its bottom cleaned and painted GREAT ESCAPE is leaving Sadler Marine and SONATA will rest there for Charlie to complete some much needed cosmetic work while Bonnie makes a trip to Virginia Beach. Only some 775 miles from mile marker "0", bouy #36, Norfolk Waterside. 
Charlie's Chief Machinist Mate when Charlie was Chief Engineer on the USS Newman K. Perry (DD-883), back in 1967-68, found us and Bill and Joanna joined us for dinner and reliving old times.
We found Mary's for brunch; two eggs over easy on biscuits with sausage gravy, grits, and hashbrowns . . . so much for the fountain of youth.
We also found Flagler College housed in what used to be the Flagler Hotel (Henry Flagler, part of the beginnings of Standard Oil, best known for the railroads he built down Florida out to Key West).
In St. Augustine, tourist again, we found the Fountain of Youth down this Spanish Moss draped street.
As we come through New Smyrna Beach we turn just before we pass Bonnie's sister's new Florida condo, in one of the buildings on the left side of the picture.
Just a pretty picture on the way from Titusville to Daytona. Rough open water is behind us and the waterway will be our travels to Portsmouth. Beauty is everywhere.
Hugging the dock pile for breakfast. It is said that the manatee are friendly and has hugged persons cleaning the bottoms of their boats. A shock, but harmless. 
kThe morning we are to leave Titusville we see our first manatee. The manatee appears to have rubbed alongside SONATA and scraped off some of our blue bottom paint. The manatee is eating vegetation growing on the dock pilings. Believe the animal is some 6-8 feet long.
Passing the Cape we could see NASA in the distance but having had Houston we went on by to Titusville.
There was an morning of excitement as the Sheriff, then the Department of Homeland Security, raced past us . . . then a helicopter overhead . . . all must have been a drill. They then stopped, talked, and ambled back to whereever they came from.
The signs along the waterway are interesting in that you must read the small print. At first blush it would appear you are in a slow, no wake, zone . . . read the small print. Many boats were passed by SONATA when they did not read the small print . . . and we were going 9 to 10 miles per hour...
John is off to Hilton Head, Bonnie and Charlie are again underway, "Resume Normal Safe Operation." On our way back up to Palm Beach, then Vero Beach, Titusville, Daytona, St. Augustine, and Jacksonville.
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