St. Augustine!

Our boat tonight sitting at the dock in Comanche Cove Marina. 

This morning we left early again to get high tide for some shallow areas not far from Fernadina Beach. We made it through there without a problem. The rest of the day was just plain fun. First we came to Sisters Creek Bridge, which used to be a bascule bridge and now is a high rise. We figured no problem we could just go under it now that it was a high rise bridge. Then we heard an announcement over the VHF radio letting Mariners know a barge was under the bridge in the opening. They are in the process of removing the old bascule bridge.  Larry hailed the captain and ask if we would be able to pass, he said there was room. At this point the tide was going out and we were moving along at a good clip of 7 knots. We slowed down and did make it through the opening but didn't have a lot of room to spare. 

The next fun item of the day was crossing the St. John's River near Jacksonville. They have been doing a major dredging job and have completely changed the channel. They took away all the small spoil islands that used to be there. At this point we were very confused and a power boat came to our rescue over the VHF radio. He hailed us when we saw us do a 360 degree turn. He ask if we looking for the entrance to the ICW. We said yes please and he shared with us which marks to go around. We got back in the ICW and continued on our way. We had another high bridge to go under and at this point we had tide and current against us. This bridge was difficult to stay straight while going under it. The next bridge was even worse we were down to 1.2 knots of speed. We were not sure if we were going to get through this one but we did. 

Our next fun item was a storm that came in off the ocean. First we got rained on. That was ok but the thunder, lightning and high winds were not ok. We saw over 22 knots of wind and after our fun at anchor the one night we get a little nervous. 

Finally we made it to St Augustine. We are staying at Comanche Cove Marina for the night. We are very tired and the only thing we did after we got docked was to take the courtesy car to the grocery store. 

The winds are picking up again and another storm is blowing in. Hopefully they will all be done by morning, when we plan to leave.