Day 30

Jessica and I are still on a mooring ball In Stuart, Florida. The diesel engine part has not arrived yet due to delays with Yanmar being closed on Veterans Day. Hoping for tomorrow delivery, we will see.  However, we are still waiting on the weather window to cross over to the Bahamas anyway so it’s not really a delay. We are still thinking possibly Sunday night that will be able to sail from Florida to Bahamas.  We started the day by attempting to bring Methuselah to the dinghy dock in order to clean off the scum line from coming down the intercoastal waterway, but it was too shallow to pull up to the dock so we came back to the Mooring ball. Our friends, Tim and Carolyn seared swordfish for our lunch, and it was absolutely delicious.  We started the online application for cruising to the Bahamas, still not finished yet, quite a task.  We learned that we are actually 7 miles from Stuart FL proper, and are in a town called Port Salerno.  We wanted to visit Stuart proper, so we started out walking up ole’ A1A.  After about two hours, Jessica looked at the steps on her pedometer, and realized we had reached 10,000 steps so Jessica blurted out: STOP.   So we stopped walking and called an Uber for the last couple miles!  We explored the quaint downtown area of the Sailfish capital of the world.  Still getting used to it being dark so early so we used the cell phone light for the dinghy light to get back to  Methuselah. Jessica has always had a thing for having her picture taken beside a palm tree, so we included a picture that Colleen found in the archives from when she was a teenager and one pic from today on a palm tree!