Good Morning all.  We are enjoying Green Turtle.  We have a prime spot and are having fun checking out all the boats that pass thru here to their various destinations.  It would be fun to slip here to see all the action, although, we’d want a covered slip 🙂  Some of the boats that have stayed here so far are

65 foot Viking

They were here last night.  We figured it was a couple with a captain.  Apparently they traveled at 30 knots to get here.  WOW!  Get out of their way.  I don’t think they really care what kind of gas mileage they are getting.

Nordic Tug

This is a petty sweet boat but I am kind of partial to trawlers 🙂

Home Made Boat

Interesting boat huh?  The only entrance to the boat is in thru the transom door.  Apparently the guy, who looks to be in his 70’s and not particularly robust, was living some where in Ohio.  It took him 17 years to build it.  He modeled it after a canal boat.  He has two 75 HP diesels in it.  He and his wife had the same plan we did.  They sold their house and moved aboard.  Unfortunately the wife wrecked her Achilles heal or something and was suppose to have her foot in a boot for 2 months, the doc released her after 1 month.  So they were off.  Then they had a shaft seal go out in one of their engines and had to shut down one engine and were forced to traveling at night to get to a marina to get fixed.  Apparently they were about 200 feet from going over a dam before they realized where they were.  They ended up getting towed into Green Turtle.  Then the wife goes grocery shopping, falls, and breaks her ankle in 5 spots!  She is going down to Cape Coral, their final destination by ambulance, and the guy is going to continue to take the boat down.  He is taking is sister-in-law with him who doesn’t look much younger.  I don’t know, either the wife doesn’t want to take the trip on the boat and is resorting to breaking body parts so she doesn’t have to go or they have a little black cloud following them.  We wish them good luck on their travels.

We have taken quite a few walks around the marina.  They have quite a few piers that are covered which are nice.  They have a section of about 4 docks that we were wondering how the heck you get to them because they appear to be on the other shore of the marina.  I guess they back up to a gated community and in order to get there, you have to drive 2 miles around to get in.  The marina has road access to get to the docks over there.  Apparently, most of the people have dingys and they just use them for the short ride back and forth.

Here are some more pictures of boats that we have seen in the marina, this one looks familiar 🙂

Carver with a cock pit and a dosey doe swim platform

Unusual boat

Here is a couple of pictures of the docks.  Nice!

Bar on the Dock

Nice Chairs and a Totem Pole

It was good to see a couple of our traveling companions arrive safe and sound today.  Osprey, Geoff and Patty and Marmalade Skies, Mark and Jane.  I guess Mark did calculate the gas correctly, no problem!

On the 18th we took a walk into town to get a few groceries and check it out.  Not only does the maria decorate for Halloween, the town is all decked out too

Decorations Marina

Decorations Entry

The town had a nice IGA, I thought it did the job, we got what we needed.  The town had and antique store.  As neither Gary or I are big on antiques we almost skipped it but we noticed they had a couple of motorcycles in the window so we strolled over.  Wow!  They even sell guns.  What a combination, antiques and guns.  Guns, from AR-15 to shotguns to a gun in a cane.  And the knives!  Holy Crap they had a boat load of them.  Quite a selection.

The town even boasts a theater.  Apparently the hot spot is Patti’s 1880.  It is kind of a old settlement place.  They have shopping, mini-golf and a few differant places to eat.  We have been told by a few people that we should eat there.  I think we’ll hit there Monday or Tuesday.  We started meandering home and we saw these cute kitties

Kitties

See the two on the ground…is that a foot and tail coming out of the fender?  That must be the best place in the car to take a nap huh?

Well I’ll sign off for today.  And just remember

Remember