Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Last stop in Florida, Fernandina Beach 5/14/2022

May 15, 2022

Our last stop in Florida was Fernandina Beach.  What a delightful town!  Lovely vibrant downtown, with interesting architecture and hardly any vacant storefront.  We strolled the town, had appetizers and wine at one restaurant, ice cream (at one of the FOUR places in town), and then a sandwich and beer at another restaurant. 

Interesting to note that we saw more dresses on women than we have seen in a very long time.  I really wanted to ask someone about that, but didn’t find a good candidate!  I took quite a few pictures of the downtown area. 

Today, Sunday the 15th, we left out of Fernandina Beach around 9:00, and headed up the ICW with a planned stop in Brunswick Georgia.  In conversations with other boaters, we were told to watch for the green biting flies – we’ve seen them before north of Atlantic City.  We heard that the mosquitoes in Brunswick are the largest this one boater has seen!  And the last piece of advice was that we will experience ‘no seeums’ that bite all the way through Georgia and South Carolina!  We were given some dryer sheets that, according to one boater, when rubbed all over your head and torso, will keep the no-seeums away.  We’ll definitely try that.

Just near the Cumberland State Park, we are starting to see many horse flies in the fly bridge.  So far, we’re able to keep up with them, swatting the ones who hitch a ride.  We’ve closed up the rest of the boat so they cannot get inside.

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