Gang, if you’re looking for big shakes today, you might want to skip today’s post and watch some TV r read a good thriller because, quite frankly, it’s not very exciting here right now. I will tell you that’s ok with us, and we’re laying low.

Otherwise, if you’re really bored, here are a few relatively banal but perhaps droll anecdotes for your consideration while we sit here at the dock until the weather breaks and we get underway again.

Crazy lightening, thunder and rain last night. Clearing today.

Pebble Isle is a great place, as are the people wonderful and FRIENDLY, but our sense of wanderlust is slowly erupting. Until we got our heat exchanger flushed, we were going nowhere. In fact, we decided to take the day off today since yesterday was busy with me helping Ray reinstall our heat exchanger and me trying to find several gallons of coolant to purchase to replace what we either lost or took out the day before. We’ve been calling several parts supply houses trying to find similar extended life coolant that we have, but no joy. SOOOOO, thankfully we saved the coolant extracted from the engine and I’ve filtered and reused the old stuff. We’ll buy more of the good stuff somewhere downstream, I guess. 

  Does it seem ironic to anyone other than me that I filtered the coolant for our engine through my trusty old “Brother of the WIND” T-Shirt from the islands?

Here’s a nail-biter for y’all… we borrowed the marina’s courtesy van to go snag the $5 DVD specials at Wally World. How’s that for riding the wave !!?? We bought 26 of the little suckers. The really exciting part, however, is that while on the way to Wal-Mart, the “Service Engine Soon” light came on. Now THAT will get your blood pumping, no?!! Sheesh.

On the way, however, Kay scored a pic of the Studebaker on a stick that I told you about yesterday. For your enjoyment…

Well, folks, another bright spot is revisiting with some of our earlier traveling buddies, including Charlie and Linda from “Freedom’s Turn” (hi again, guys!)

And a few of our other leap-frogging looper friends including Bella Luna, Blue Max, Southern Comfort, etcetera, Mojo, Grettatude, C-Life, etc.

The placid beauty of this area continues to thrill:

Do NOT let it be said that there’s no satellite TV here in Pebble Isle (can YOU spot the satellite dish in this pic?)!!

 

 

 

 

 

And a day at Pebble Isle would not be complete without a dock run on the Cushman (This is Randy, one of the owners, and Jimmy, part-time mechanic, TowBoat US driver, painter, clearly a true renaissance man!

 

Even though there is to be a huge pig roast here on Saturday, we’ll likely be shoving off tomorrow (Thursday) for a couple nights of anchorages and then make for Aqua Yacht Harbor as our next marina where we need to commit to taking the mast down or leaving it up (gulp). Those darn fixed height bridges !

Later, ‘gators…