Tuesday, March 30, 2010 mhmmmm - still in Lauderdale but at a diff. mooring now.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL

After all the rain and bumping last night and yesterday we bailed out the dinghy, then moved to another mooring ball closest to the ICW channel, the middle of three mooring balls. After being woke up at 4:30am as we swung into whatever is down there – we thought it prudent to move. Then we caught the bus into town to go to West Marine and Sailor Man. Bus fare is $1.50 for me and $.75 for Wayne. Age has its perks I guess… Wayne picked up a small solar panel to try and keep the batteries topped off this summer when we leave the boat. We need to make sure that if any water gets in from rain, that the bilge pump will keep up with it to keep the bilge empty. After seeing the damage that can happen on another boat, in another boat yard, we decided better safe than sorry.

After that we walked over to Joe’s Café. Wayne got a burger and I got a gyro with a Greek salad. Good food once again! Then with our energy levels revived, I went to Publix to pick up a few items and left Wayne to sit and people watch until I was done shopping. The bus doesn’t come into the shopping center so we had to walk out to the main road to catch it back to the marina. It was really a pleasant day for walking. Temperatures in the mid seventies and a nice sunny day.

It looks like tomorrow we’ll head north again, so we took one last shower here and checked out (returned the card key, etc…). While waiting for Wayne in the lounge I was watching the weather. It looks like major flooding and rain in the northeast. My goodness! Maggie and Jonathan got hit by two tornados yesterday in the Bahamas, we have major thunderstorms and winds here and flooding in the northeast. It’s definitely a crazy weather year.