New Smyrna Beach

Off to New Smyrna Beach, freshly washed cat in tow.  She spent hours washing herself, poor thing!
NSB is where friends Ret and Joe live.  Actually, they have the exact same boat as we; that's how we met them in the Chesapeake several years ago.  Anyway, they have lots of other good stuff, too.  She's the lady who feeds birds off of her back deck.  Like this gorgeous white egret, fluffed up for show.

Smokey was fasinated with him, too.

And there are raccoons

It was definitely overload for Smoke! 

Joe has a toy, too...lots of fun!  Biker Chick!!

After lunch, we went to an airshow.  It was hot, but a good show.  3 World War II T28 (?) planes doing sky writing, and formation acrobatics.

Hot air balloons (went up at dusk, we didn't see them then)

Advertised was a jet car, designed by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, with fastest speed of over 350 mph.  It was only after the driver (a collage coed) started up the engines and began pumping out fire and smoke that it was announced that she would only be doing a 20 mph drive by... pooh...

But, there were more cars.  Later that evening, Joe and Luke visited the antique car "cruise" in downtown NSB while Ret and I stayed home and had a wine or two.

We left early on Sunday morning for an overnighter to Savannah, about 26 hours, 180 miles, mostly motorsailing with light winds from the south. We went out to sea from Ponce De Leon Inlet, featuring one of the East Coast's tallest lighthouses.

Made the trip with no problems - no excitement, no nearby boats, also no fish to fillet!   Actually, Luke spent several hours redoing an end to end, constant diameter splice that  parted in a reefing line for the main sail. Smoke slept most of the way.  She was overdosed, I believe, from her swim and stay at Ret's house.  She even missed the nice sunrise.  We always like to see sunrise on our overnighters.

One last picture - I love this one!  Remember the manatee beside the boat at Titusville?  Well, Luke caught quite a different shot of her.  We didn't download this one until today.  Take a good look - there in the water and on her back are the reflections of  "Latitudes" and both Luke and I taking pictures of her.  A little errie, but cool, huh!