Port Canaveral > Ponce de Leon > Fernandina Beach

After leaving Port Canaveral, we anchored out two nights (no wifi) before arriving in Fernandina Beach yesterday evening.  Here is a visual summary of our past few days.

On Friday morning, we waited for two cruise ships to enter Port Canaveral before we could leave. Lots of fishing boats queued up ahead of us.  They obviously know the drill.

Calm wind. Motoring north.

When we're motoring, we hang out under the shade of the bimini.  Auto pilot keeps us on course.

These yellow buoys mark the NASA restricted space (where rocket debris may fall).

Sugar cane fields burning in the distance.

Our welcome "committee" to Ponce de Leon inlet.

Sunset from our anchorage on Rockhouse Creek.

Leaving Ponce de Leon inlet on Saturday morning.......if you need bait or ice, they're your guys!

Army Corps of Engineers entering Ponce de Leon channel as we exited.

Lighthouse in the morning sun

Redneck'n is the name of their boat -- hahahahaha!

We caught eight bonito on Saturday.......and let them all go.  We were hoping for some tasty "dinner" fish.

Sunset Saturday night from our anchorage just north of Saint Augustine on the Tolomato River.

Saint Augustine in the Sunday morning light.

The channel to/from the ocean is narrow and tricky. 

Sunday was another calm day so we motored once again.

We didn't catch a single fish on Sunday.  This algae bloom might have been the reason.  We sliced through lots of it. Ick.

At St. John's channel (port of Jacksonville), we yielded to this freighter.......

.......and this floating casino.

The birds are conditioned like Pavlov's dog when they see a shrimp boat.

We entered St. Mary's channel at midpoint.  This is the entrance to Cumberland Sound.  Kings Bay submarine station is just north of here.  

They don't look very bright in this photo, but the blinking range markers could be seen for MILES out to sea.  If you line up the two markers when entering from the ocean, you will travel straight in the channel.  When this was taken, we had just turned south toward our marina at Fernandina Beach.

Fort Clinch

Lots of shrimp boats in this neck of the woods.

The copper cupola on this house was glistening in the sun.

One of two paper plants on the river.

This shrimp boat wasn't so lucky navigating the river.

Familiar sight along the river.

South of the marina are more shrimp boats and the other paper plant.

We're hanging out in Fernandina Beach for a few nights before continuing north.