Woke up to fog this morning, our two anchors held during the night and
steady. Sat around waiting for the fog to clear, started the generator,
plugged in the computer and worked on the blog etc. Made French toast
out of some bread that needed to be used, topped it with home canned
peach sauce with cinnamon and sugar. Yummy, don't know why we don't do
this at home, better and healthier than lots of syrup. Just about done
cleaning up and Attitude Changer called, said they were pulling anchor
and heading back up to Brandenton. Since sun was popping out of the
fog, Curt got in the dingy pulled one anchor up, boy did we "swing on
the hook" with the one anchor, fog started moving in over the houses and
trees from the Gulf, so we decided to pull anchor, dock over at the
restaurant we had supper at last night and wait to see what the weather
was going to do. Cleared some out on the Sarasota Bay, so decided we'd
take off and see what happens trying to get to Venice to see our friends
there. Went thru a shallow area, popping up the rudder on the way to
the ICW. Got rock and rolled by big boats but also saw dolphins jumping
out of their big wake. Pretty cool even though....12:00Motor sailing
with the jib up across Sarasota Bay at about 6 kts. 1300 More Fog! Got
better then worse then better then zero visibility. Yeah!!!#$@%$#$# We
get to practice using our GPS chart plotter on the boat and handheld
GPS with the auto pilot cause I can't tell which way we're going.
Slowed down, came upon other boats that were going all directions, they
turned around and followed us (did they know who they were following?)
Anyway we crept along at slow speed, listening for horns and motors
blowing our own fog horn, sometimes going thru a narrow channel where we
could see houses or the mangroves on the other side. Called the dock
master at Crow's Nest at Venice and he said oh ya I can see across the
inlet here. So much to my distress (I was driving) and Curt's
nagivating assistance we kept going. Pretty soon we could see two boat
lengths ahead (20 ft) and then a little more, soon a motor boat came
passing us and it was clearing, the other two behind us followed him and
we followed them till they veered off to their destination. Starting
to get foggy again we saw Crow's Nest Marina, happily pulled into our
slip, tied up. Saw Field Trip boat and Just Faken It Boat. Didn't look
like anyone was there so we went for a bike ride to check out Venice
and pick up a few supplies from the grocery store. On our way back, we
stopped at the beach and looked our over the Gulf Of Mexico 30 ft and
fog :D Judy called said where are you guys we're having dock drinks,
so we rushed back even thought it was a little past 5pm happy hour and
were told to get our drinks and come over to Field Trip. Got our bottle
of wine and found they were sharing a beautiful meal of grilled salmon
and vegetables along with shrip sald. We brought the Greek cheese and
tried teaching them how the greek butcher instructed us in detail on
sucking on the cheese not chewing it up and swallow. I don't think they
were impressed with our Greek cheese instructions:) After dinner went
over to the restaurant for dessert and a good visit. So good to catch
up to Jeff and Judy and visit. Good to be in the marina in the fog.
Boats in the bay anchored in the fog
I love the sculptures!!!!! Wish I was there!!!!
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