Yesterday we had a shorter day as our destination was Peck Lake, a place we had wanted to stop at on the way down but didn't. You pull off the waterway, anchor, then a short dinghy ride to shore, and there's a path over a sand dune and voila!... a beautiful ocean beach. It's like a little bit of paradise so we had to stay another day.
Retracing our route like this we are being surprised continually by bits of information that Christopher noticed and remembers from the trip down.
Retracing our route like this we are being surprised continually by bits of information that Christopher noticed and remembers from the trip down.
We came up to one bridge and he reminded us that when we were coming down that bridge had a problem and could only raise one span. Another one he reminded us that we had gotten too close to it before it opened and that Dad had to back up. There are 85 bridges on this route!
There is a spot along this route that is 1000 miles from Norfolk. On the way down we did a celebratory "cheers!" when we passed the spot. There's no marker there or anything it is just something you can see on the chart. So we were getting close today when he reminded us about it. We did cheers again of course but then silently took a deep breath. Ok, 1000 miles to Norfolk then between 800-900 miles after that. Onward ho!
When we pulled into this anchorage there was a boat here that Dave and I thought we'd seen somewhere on the route down. Christopher pipes up " I took a picture of that boat on the way to St. Augustine." Now, he takes a lot of pictures, and those who have seen him in action will agree that I mean A LOT of pictures daily, so we were a little doubtful that it really was that boat and we've had so many travel days how would he remember that it was on the day to St. Augustine. "Show us" we said. It took him less than a minute of looking through his picture folders on the computer to say "There it is!"... and there it was, in the folder labelled "to St. Augustine, Dec. 2".
The beach was great fun to jump around in the waves and a joy to walk along a beautiful and totally undeveloped stretch of ocean.
2 comments:
Christopher, when you come home can I ask you to share some of that amazing memory?
Safe journey home,
Auntie Syl
Happy Birthday Shirley! This is my 4th attempt to send you this message, there are now several birthday greetings for you floating around in cyber space! Best wishes for a wonderful day and another excellent year ahead of you! Keep listening to Christopher and you will arrive home safely. We are 'thawing out' here and I am eyeing my flip flops for the weekend!
hugs, Helena
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