Wednesday 5/27/20 - Ft Myers Yacht Basin

Have you ever heard that it is HOT 🥵 in the summer in Florida?  Whew...a warm one today with some early evening thunderstorms.   We slept well last night in the marina with just a gentle rock....very relaxing.   It was a nice comfortable morning.   After sitting on the deck for a while and watching the sunrise Renee took a few hours to accomplish some math theory homework 🤓 while Erik took everything off the outside of the boat and gave it a GOOD washing.   The bulk of the grime had been removed at the storage yard but it needed a good polish.   Aquaholic still cleans up nicely for an old boat!

Everything stripped off the boat and time for a good bath

The AGLCA Looper flag is up on the bow pulpit

Old Glory is back in her station as well

While washing the boat Erik also did some MUCH needed maintenance and lubrication of the bicycles.   When we got to the boat we found that the sprockets, chains, gears, brake mechanisms and just about everything else had rusted badly.   We got them to somewhat operate back at the boatyard but the chains would both skip, brakes were very hard to squeeze, some gears wouldn’t shift and they were making all kinds of  squeaks and noises.   One full can of PB blaster later and a half bottle of chain oil and they are much more functional now.   We do think this will be the last year for these bikes though.

Erik's Cannondale was picked up off of craiglist 4 years ago in Wheeling WV on our way up to Pittsburgh
You can't tell from the pic, but its getting rough!  seat is electrical taped up, rust everywhere, sprocket squeaking.  Nothing lots of oil can't fix though :-) 

We picked up Renee's Trek bike at a garage sale 4 years ago for $5 and it's still chugging along.   No.....Renee did not crash into the pylon and fall into the water;  This is just one of several positions it was put into in order to get chain oil to seep down into the cables and such to get everything to operate 

In the afternoon we took the bikes up to the main drag, parked them and walked for a while looking at the many shops and restaurants.  The smells wafting from the kitchens made us hungry.   After the walking for a bit we got back on the bikes and rode further inland toward the historic residential neighborhoods which had many charming homes.   Love the moss hanging from the trees and the banyon trees.

Pretty landscapes

Neat street sculptures along the main drag 

Another sculpture 

Selfie chin. lol

If you have really good eyes and know where to look you can see Aquaholic in this pic taken from a pier down the coast

Bike ride into the historic Ft Myers neighborhoods

Stearnwheeler docked a hundred feet or so away from us

One of many beautiful homes we saw on our bike ride

After the hot afternoon the AC back at the boat was welcomed.   Erik stood directly in front of the AC vent and prepared fresh guacamole and then grilled hamburgers for dinner.   Some strong thunderstorms rolled through just after dinner time.  They were actually welcome because they knocked the heat down considerably.   Later in the evening we took another walk into town to partake  in our favorite activity....eating ice cream!  The ‘stellar coffee’ flavor lived up to its name 🍦