Day 48. Friday. 2/3/17. Upper Keys Sailing Club marina
Today we walked to the drug store, laundromat, and Family Dollar. It was about 1/2 mile walk and we took a foldable dolly and a collapsable crate with a handle to haul things to and from. We had 3 large loads of clothes which I did while Lee argued with the drug store about my Rx. Our insurance has a mail order pharmacy for things you take routinely but while sailing we do not have an address for them to send any meds to. We periodically find a drug store we can get to and have them communicate with our insurance and fill the Rx. Sounds simple but seldom is. Today was no different. I had finished washing and drying the laundry and had most of it folded before Lee came back from the drugstore. We picked up some bottled water and soft drinks and other odds and ends at Family Dollar right next door to the laundromat and grabbed a bit of lunch at a deli. All these were in sight of each other. We packed up all our stuff and walked back to the marina.
A club member sitting on the porch of the bar invited us to come to TGIF in the evening. They just said drinks and food. We were not sure if you bought food at the bar or brought food like as in pot luck. We went to the club bar around 7:30 and TGIF was in full swing. It was pot luck but I had not prepped anything not knowing that. We chatted with several members and drank and ate. Everyone was extremely friendly. They were all sail boaters, no power boaters. We would stop there again if we are that way and they have space. It is a small marina and it word gets out how welcoming everyone is it may not be have space next time, so going to keep it our secret. Oops, Lee posted a positive note on Active Captain, so much for that.
Day 49, Saturday. 2/4/17. Anchored in Barnes Sound,
We made a quick trip back to the shopping area where Lee loaded up at the liquor store and I went back to the drug store. We filled our water tank and pushed our way out from between the two 13' apart posts. Then started our motor and eased out of the slip. We traveled north through Blackwater Sound and into Barnes Sound. It was early afternoon and the area was large and deep enough to get in some sailing. We sailed just for the fun of it in Barnes Sound for about 3 hours with 7 to 15 kts of wind. Sweet sound of silence. We went to the Northern part of the sound and dropped anchor about 4:30. It was low 70s mostly sunny so a fun afternoon.
Lee tried again for the 4th or 5th time to see if he could get my Apple I phone to down load ebooks from BookBub. It would load them to an I pad he uses but not my phone. Previous attempts to fix the issue have gone nowhere. Today we got someone with some sense (a senior advisor) and it is finally working like it should. Booked offers free, 1,2, &3 dollar ebooks... Everyday they send you 8 or so offerings from the genre you select. much handier and cheaper than buying paper books. Really have used it a lot on this trip. We will hang out here until we see a weather window to cross the Gulf Stream and do some day sailing to kill time and hone our skills.
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