Monday April 9:Fishing for Catfish - Catching Starfish

The Oyster Fest Saturday was a success - Steve finally managed to score a dozen oysters after making two trips to the festival. The lines were VERY long and the shuckers inexperienced and slow. But then it's all volunteers so it was ok. Lots of people downtown again. We took a ride around and Ft. Pierce really has gone to extremes to redo their downtown area. Many new/redone buildings. An 8 million dollar project to add docks is also in the works. These would replace the docks that were wiped out by a hurricane in 2004. Nice city. Anyway, we left yesterday about 1 pm and headed up the Indian River to an anchorage Steve had picked out. Peter and Cheryl were running around Florida moving their car and dealing with their sailboat which is still in Punta Gorda (west coast of Florida). Hopefully we'll meet up with them later today.

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The 4 hour trip yesterday was very pleasant travel as the waterway is well protected from the NW winds that were blowing about 12 mph (which isn't a lot until you add the 8 mph that we are traveling into the wind - suddenly it's 20 mph!). A few boaters out enjoying the day on sand bars along the way. More and more of the sides of the river are undeveloped mangrove areas which is really nice to see instead of the gazillion dollar homes everywhere. We thought we were pretty much away from everything near our little island when we anchored - until we saw the ice cream boat go by!

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Steve was trying to catch a catfish but instead caught not one but two sea stars. Since his bait was just sitting on the bottom it was apparently fair game for the sea stars. Steve was able to get them off with harm fortunately. No more just leaving the pole unattended! Sunset and dinner on the grill - hard to get any better than this.

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Up this morning and off to kayak around, so we headed off toward the island nearest us. Very shallow water but very clear. Steve spotted some dolphins out a bit and off he went trying to catch up to them. The dolphins must have been looking for food because they really just ignored that someone in a kayak was nearby!

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After lunch, we'll pull up the anchor and head a short 10 miles to Serenity Island. We anchored off of it on the way down and it was such a pretty spot that we're going back.