Thursday April 25: Back Home

It was a nice drive back to Fernandina Beach FL with no issues. Sadly I was very bad about taking any pictures while we were in NC - the only one was Steve on the phone in the yard.

The Neuse River is in the background and looking very placid this day compared to what it was for the prior 3 days.

VERY windy day and night. It was a good time to NOT be on the boat! We were able to catch up Saturday with some friends on Good Tidings from Banana Bay who were hunkered down at River Dunes Marina - about 1 1/4 hour drive from Matt and Wendy's place.

It was great to see Kiera and Jeff again - their plans were to stay until the weather was decent enough to travel. Which ended up being Tuesday. In the meantime we relaxed and enjoyed being landlubbers for a few days time.



Matt (as the CO of his communication squadron) designed a special recognition coin which he awards to marines under his command for special achievement or recognition. We thought it was really cool. Here's the front and back of one.



It was, as always, a nice break from being on the boat. Time now to head north to NC by boat. What took us 8 hours in a car will take us about 2 weeks by boat :-)