OUT of FLorida - St. Marys GA - heading north

It's been an interesting April-May on our trip north.   We got to spend some quality time with our friends, Brian and Sheila Strutt (s/v Moonshadow), in Titusville, AND we got to enjoy Disney World with Ruth, Matt, Charlie, and Billie.  

Breakfast at the Polynesian

the Family at Disney World's Animal Kingdom

Everest Coaster
with family.

Matt, Pluto, Ruth, Billie, and Charlie at MK

Dean the percussionist at the Hoop-de-Doo dinner show!

family at the Hoop-De-Doo Dinner show - Wonderful evening!

We're now headed north at our normal cruising rythym, and pace; slowly.  

We've met old friends along the way, and made quite a few new aquaintances, as well. 
While on a mooring in St. Augustine, our friend Dr. Graham (Arnold) Smith drove down from JAX and met us for dinner.   We had a wonderful evening with Arnold, catching up on his work, his family, and our travels, etc.    

dinner with Arnold at the Raintree Inn - St. Augustine, FL

One phenomenal happening... as we got to St. Augustine, we noticed that we were missing some very important documentation...and searched the boat, high, and low for it...  finally determining that it might be in Brian's Land Rover.  We called them... and sure enough it had fallen somewhere in the back seat...    Great friends that they are, they drove the documents to us (making the trip from mid-Florida (near Orlando), to St. Augustine).   It was wonderful to see them one last time before heading more north.

Some of our new aquaintances were from the Buffalo area, or had ties to WNY. 

We're now (May 10) anchored in the St. Marys River, just south of the City of St. Marys.  Yesterday (Thursday) we dinghied in to see John and Anne on the triple masted schooner "SteelAway".
Tonight, we'll share a happy hour with them.  

Autumn Borne, and Passages (Mo; George) after dinner on Friday
They're heading back to VT for the summer.

Future plans:  lazy day sail over to Cumberland Island...to walk the paths lined with cabbage palms, and live oak trees (covered in spanish moss).  Surreal landscape.