Florida – Finally!
With groggy heads, we left our new friends, Scott and Connie (Easy Living) and continued south to Florida. We had to time our departure so that we cruised on the up waters of the tide. The marina we were heading to needs to be dredged and so you must go in at high tide. It started out rainy and cloudy with a small amount of fog but then cleared a bit. We passed more damage created by Hurricane Matthew. The Fernandina City Marina was closed to all boat traffic. This was sad because we only spent one night there on the way north and had planned to spend at least two nights here.
Amelia Island Yacht Basin was next on the ICW. They have a nice bar/restaurant on site so we could grab a few drinks and something to eat. We met the general manager and he is from Kentucky!
They were not kidding when they said that they need to dredge. Low tide was at 9:00 AM and there was only 2 feet of water under our boat! We had to wait 2.5 hours before there was enough water to get out of the marina. They are supposed to begin to dredge in a few weeks. Since we had a late start we only cruised 30 miles to The Beach Marina. We wanted to refuel but they ran out of diesel. They had a nice restaurant and we could see our boat from inside.
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