Drew and Deb sailing: We are in Fort Pierce until tonight

We are at Harbor Town Marina, Fort Pierce, FL and will give a picture tour. However, had to include Mazu who loves the snow in Maine.

We have traveled back and forth to New England for appointments, parties, and events through November and December.

On Shawnee the ladder is completed and fits perfectly. The worker, Wallabee's Fabrication, Danny, finished it off perfectly. A precise job and he did it on time, in budget, and it works! Great welder.

We did get out of the slip and motored to the pump out dock. Someday we'll go for a sail.

Lights around a boat and around my neck for a potluck dinner event.

Below deck on Shawnee.

We visited Heathcote Botanical Gardens Light Night. No Christmas trees or palm trees are lighted or decorated.

(My MAC computer is slowing down significantly so I think it's time for a new one after 5 and a half years. I lose my CD port to modernity but rarely use it anyway. The slow down is effecting my creative writing... good excuse.)

Onto the Harbor Town Marina tour. Why we stay here is for: the price, convenience, and the facilities that we have not found in other places and access to many state beaches. We learned yesterday that Harbor Town Marina is going to upgrade the place with a new pool, tear down the outside pavilion and increase the rates. They are full and doing well. We are on a dock with 4 other Island Packets, some of which are waiting for a weather window to sail to the Bahamas.

This is the horseshoe field that will be replaced with a new swimming pool because the old one is falling into the ocean due to drainage problems.

The pool is a great thing to have in "our" backyard. Doesn't look like it's having any problems.

The full bike rack

The outdoor pavilion where there are always people doing projects. Also where they have monthly potluck dinners. I'd love a ping pong table.

The wonderful covered walkway that leads to the boaters lounge, fitness center, laundry, restrooms, showers, office, boat broker.

The fitness center

New clean laundry. $3 per load.

The boaters' lounge - computer, TV, jigsaw puzzle

Nothing fancy. There are maybe 15% of the boats have live-a boards or seasonal live-a boards.

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I visited the The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach to hear a speaker on landscape design recently. There's a 200 person waiting list to join this organization. Very tony crowd. Excellent events around the four arts, music, plays, dance, art and more.

Here's pictures of their beautiful gardens.