It’s always a little stressful when your boat is being placed on the lift watching the expert taking charge. Today is a very rainy, thunder and lightening day and Nana and Nandad spent most of it in their rental mini while the Marina worked on the boat - boating certainly can test one’s patience! We did manage to have breakfast at T-Rays Burger Station which is an old garage turned funky diner so despite the rain we had a delicious breakfast. We finally got called to make a run to West Marine to pick up a part for the head so I guess being available does help when it comes to boating. New Horizon is back in the water by late afternoon and after some boat cleaning we are happy to have a relaxing evening eating onboard.
Wednesday Jan 17th. Today Matt will work on fixing the main head and we will wait for a delivery from Fed Ex. After all that we will be finally ready to have an early start tomorrow for St.,Augustine. We took the opportunity this morning to review the history of Old Fernandina and as you can tell from the pictures the weather is cold !
This canon is part of the armament of Fort San Carlos. This 6-pound canon was used by the Spanish, English and French and was found in the marsh and donated to the Florida Park Service. The canons were used during the Battle of Amelia in 1817, and were also used to protect the harbor and inlet from invaders. This particular canon was in service from the mid-1700’s to the 1830’s ( according to the information on the board which is erected on the site of the historic plaza grounds that once laid in front of the Spanish Fort San Carlos.
Old Town Fernandina
Sunset at Egan Creek
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