Moving South

The time has come for us to cast off these dock lines (again) and continue our way south. The weather windows for crossing to the Bahamas have been few and far between in early January but we’re hopeful that we’ll be able to head over in the next 2 weeks. There was a possible window on January 13 but it’s not looking the best now. We still have lots of time to get to Nassau – our flights home for Evelyn’s defence are on February 1st.

We drove up to Melbourne on Jan. 7th to finish our provisioning and that went very well. Our freezer is now full of meat that should last us for our entire trip. It’s always lots of fun shopping for 16 weeks worth of food. Fellow customers make all kinds of comments – mostly about coming home with us to help drink all the bottles we usually have in our cart! This year was no exception. One man asked if he could come to the party and told him he’d have to go to the Bahamas and he replied “that’s sounds like a good idea”.

Yesterday (Jan. 8th) we made the long drive back to Reynolds to drop off our car. The drive north was good until we got to Melbourne – a big accident closed all the lanes on the I 95 so we had to detour through the town. This detour added about 40 minutes to our 3 hour drive. We got to Reynolds at lunch so we used our lunchtime to print our Bahamas’ cruising license forms and to get the inreach up and running. The inreach device is now on and dropping tracks (well not many because we’re not moving). It will drop new track points every 4 hours. We have a new link to the mapshare: please use this link if you’d like to follow our progress. I will share this link on Facebook and by email also.

https://share.garmin.com/crimsonkathryn

Tomorrow (January 10) we’ll be moving south to either Fort Pierce or even further to Stuart. We’ve never travelled the ICW between Fort Pierce and Lake Worth so this will be a first. We’ll be in Lake Worth by Thursday, January 11 but will not have wifi (unless we go ashore) until we get to the Bahamas. So there’s going to be a bit of time between this post and the next! Hopefully I’ll take more photos and have more to talk about by the time we get decent wifi!

(Our current wifi isn’t working well enough for me to add photos- next time.)