The wind was blowing south which simply just pushed us on our way even faster :-) It was actually a pleasant day after starting out as overcast and cool.
We saw minimal traffic along the way and it wasn't until we reached the north bridge at Ft. Pierce that we even encountered another boat!
The plan was to time our arrival to coincide with a minimum amount of current flowing in and around the marina. It worked well.
Steve's biggest challenge with the lines was getting them over the super tall pilings! These are not floating docks so I'm not sure why the really tall poles. Normally we see these at floating docks - so if the water rises rapidly (as it does during a hurricane), there is plenty of piling height to handle the docks rising.
Ft. Pierce City Marina is actually making a nice comeback from the hurricane a number of years back that wiped out a large portion of the docks here. It's been a multi-year project to replace these docks and add some very substantial breakwalls to surround the new docks. Maybe they'll be done next trip by here.
Guess since I'm the one that keeps scraping the wood on the pilings when we come into a dock, I should help fix it, right?
Short bike ride around to check out the area. It's supposed to be not very nice weather for the next week so we decided to just stay until next Saturday. Should be a good place to celebrate Thanksgiving!!
This is a very nice area - even the dumpsters are nicely painted :-)
We'll see what tomorrow brings. There may be a serious search for pots and pans that work on induction burners. To that end, we picked up a car from Enterprise again - $40 for 3 days. Can't beat it :-)
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