November 28th and 29th- Sisters Creek to Saint Augustine FL

More sun and warm weather. No complaints from this boat. I looked at the weather forecast for our home port (Dartmouth). Wednesday night is going to be 36 degrees, rain, and wind gusting to 50mph. Brrrrr.

We made good time on our trip from Jacksonville to St Augustine. We were able to roll out the genoa (sail) on the Tolomato river. Evergreen seems to fly (to us) with her 30hp diesel and big sail pushing her along. We passed several boats on our way to the port. Passing other boats, was unheard of during our last southern voyage.

We had lunch while racing along on the river. We were joined by a pod of dolphins. They swam along with us for almost half an hour. Seeing dolphins never “gets old” for us and I hope it never does.

Last week we managed to reserve a mooring for a few days. St Augustine is a fun city to spend some time in. We are “front row” to the Christmas light display the city puts on during the season. In the evening, many tour boats cruised around the waterfront. The whole scene was very festive.

Sunset was prelude to the rest of the show.

In the morning the captain rolled out of his bunk and got Ollie to shore for his AM commando raid. He particularly enjoys running around at the Castillo de San Marcos (big old fort). While here we’ll take care of a few boat chores and check out the shops in town. I hope to find a bowl of Minorcan conch chowder today.

Quiet morning scenes from Saint Augustine.

Evergreen moored off of Saint Augustine.