We slept well at Turtle Cove Marina, Tarpon Springs with bellies full of Greek food! After our usual routine of coffee, breakfast and a few miscellaneous boat chores we departed for our destination of the day, St Petersburg. Today's voyage would be a 55 mile trip down the GCICW through an area of many islands. We departed at 7:20am and arrived at St Petersburg Municipal Marina at about 12:30pm. Many nice sites to be seen along the way including another nice view of a lighthouse.
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| Departing from Turtle Cove Marina, Tarpon Springs and back into the GCICW |
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| Passing by the Anclote Key Lighthouse |
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| skyline of St Petersburg |
Coming into St Petersburg we phoned ahead to the marina where we had made our reservation online through Dockwa which is an online service that many marinas are now using. This was our first experience utilizing it. It was pretty convenient. The dock master was standing on the dock awaiting us as we pulled in and helped us to tie up. He had a welcome pack along with our receipt and a key card to the marina gates in had. We did not even have to walk up to the offices.
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| St Pete has Pride! We sent out a message to Chelsea and Derek to hop a plane and come join us :-) |
After settling into our slip we unloaded the bicycles and set out into town to explore. St Petersburg has many beautiful and historic homes and businesses. We rode up through the 'Historic Northeast' residential community and enjoyed the brick paved streets and interesting houses. We continued up further north of downtown where we stopped in at a barber shop where Erik got his ears lowered. Dave, the barber was a very outgoing and personable guy who shared a little about his story and how he ended up in St Pete a few years ago after having a very busy and successful shop in New York.
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| Time for Erik to get a trim |
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| Dave, the barber, works at this brother Ralph's shop a couple days a week after 'retiring' from owning his own shop in New York a few years ago. Ralph had quite the personality and kept us well entertained while cutting Erik's hair |
We continued on our way north and stopped in at Trader Joes and The Fresh Market where we picked up a few yummy things for upcoming days nutritional needs. On our way back to the marina we stopped in at the Vinoy Renaissance Hotel (pretty fancy smancy place!).
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| Pool and courtyard area of Vinoy Renaissance historic hotel |
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| Rainbows just seem to be following us around as we travel the 'Forgotten Coast' of Florida :-) |
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| Sunset at the marina in St Pete with the skyline |
Arriving back at the boat we fixed dinner and Renee got busy with some studying to prepare for the 're take' of her midterm exam that she had so many issues with before leaving Carabelle. She is now scheduled to do the re take tomorrow morning. Erik did absolutely nothing but relax!
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| The new hair makes Erik's ears look awfully large! Thanks for the nice cut Dave! |
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