Day 14: Simple Joys

St. Augustine Municipal Marina

Our GPS maps are updated (loooong download time onto an SD card that the Garmin read in two minutes).  This means we have 2022 maps of the ICW instead of ones from 2016.  John also adjusted the water pump (the new one) in efforts to improve the the cycling at low volume.  We also got a pump out and topped off our water tank.

Although we made those preparations, we’re going to stay here until Sunday morning just to shelter from some nasty weather.  Because we’re hooking up to the marina’s electric we can run our little ceramic heaters when the temps drop.  We don’t really have an easy way to power electric heaters when we’re at at anchor, although we do have a built-in propane heater and a small portable one if necessary. We also have good wifi here so we can stay entertained with Netflix. 

We were able to walk around St. Augustine today while the weather was in the low 60s. We spent some time together doing things that we did in our Johns Island life: John got to have some beers at a microbrewery and I got geeky looking at the birds. These small things are our simple joys.

It’s as simple as this: we are happy to be here with one another.