St. Augustine, FL

We arrived at 9:30 for the 10:00 opening of the Bridge of Lion's draw bridge. 
 Drew at the helm.

We reserved a slip with the prediction of 25 k winds that we didn't want to bounce around in in the mooring field.

Slipped in nicely and rested after the 72 hour outside rolling trip.   I hosed down the boat from its salty bath.  Mazu collapsed.  I needed to walk so we went to Hyppolyte's  Popsicles - remarkable flavors like cucumber, basil, lemon  and coconut, pear.  Good place and of course Cousteau's ice cream sundaes - Jaquar is the best one: waffle, pecans, maple syrup and ice cream.

 Egret walking on hurricane debris at the docks.  The birds are remarkably tame walking close to many birds.

Enough about food.  I did get the solar charger working to use for the phone and ipad

See details for this Waterproof Rugged Solar Powered Charger Power Monkey Extreme -- website link below.  It has a ton of adapters for any kind of device you might want to charge.  It does take about 10 hours in the sun for the solar panels to bring the battery charger up to 98% but I think too it depends on how sunny the place is.  It does not have to be fully charged to do the phone.  Figure it's a good back up if batteries fail on the boat.  Lots of hikers use these.
http://www.leevalley.com/US/garden/Page.aspx?p=71978&cat=2,40725,45454

We continue to check the leak in the locker without taking the salon apart to get to the bottom locker.  Drew has three long armed helpers to reach into the engine compartment, bilge or deep bins:  a telescoping mirror, a magnet extender and an extension grabber.  Since it's my job to bail any leaky places I took the extension grabber and put a piece of paper towel on the end, stuck it down into the bin after opening the drawer to see if the paper towel would be wet.

It was wet.  Unfortunately we cannot seem to find this leak.  ARGH!

We left for a walk, eating a little at Scarlet O'Haras with music.  Mazu at our feet in the pet friendly restaurant.  But as we walked through the touristy area we found the great musician, Charlie Brown, on the keyboard at the new Mam Thai Bistro.
   This article was written in 2010
 http://gargoyle.flagler.edu/2010/10/local-musician-maintains-strong-fanbase/ 

He's now 80 and everyone dances by this guy at the keyboard.  Still a good voice and great rhythm.  A fixture in St. Augustine.

This sunset on the way down.  The camera is not getting the orange ball that we actually saw.

[Phone camera has lag time and not cooperating with sending pix to computer to insert into the blog : ( more later.]