Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Returning to Stuart

After a very restful night, we lifted anchor at 9.00 am and headed north on the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW).

Windsong II in the morning at Lake With anchorage

We were lucky, that there was little traffic on the water and we could time our ways up, through the 6 bascule bridges just perfect, we never missed an opening. about an hour, before we got back to Stuart, we had a fantastic dolphin encounter at Peck Lake. The dolphins played in the bow wave of the boat, whent forth and back for quite a while. I slowed down and was scared, that they could be caught in the propeller. Due to the current in the narrow channel, it is not a smart thing, to bring the engine to a full stop... But these animals seemed to have experiences with boats and all went just fine. Once they were done with our boat, the whole dolphin family awaited the next boat coming along their way - Windsong II - to play some more.


We made it back to Stuart, docked the boat and started unloading all the stuff, we carried with us on the boat. This certainly will be an ongoing task for the next coulee days.

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