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Heading South on the ICW and ......

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Susea goes bonkers when she sees dolphins. We are at Old Port Cove Marina till Monday AM http://opch2.reachlocal.net/old_port_cove.php Transient rate is $1.42 per ft with boatUS discount. Very nice marina, If it was warm we would stay here. The docks are floating and non slip walkways and ramps. Very clean! Wabasso Bridge Anchorage Susea thought panther at Eco Center was real The Eco center has a nice dock with a ladder. No ugly signs saying you can't use it! Dragon Fly on dingy ride to the dock Oil leak from intercooler is from seal in turbo. The tiny hole is a design feature. A $.50 cent seal will cost a day's labor to pull the turbo and replace! I placed a catch pan under it and collected a cup of oil in 10 hours of running. None got in the bilge!  complex tonite because we were worn out and cold from the trip down. We anchored and then stayed in a old marina Seven Seas in Daytona. Then we anchored out at Wabasso Creek
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        Sad today and also glad to be on our way to the Warm South. We are headed to Boot Key Harbor for the winter. We will miss our friends at Jekyll Harbor Marina, so many good times! Scott does such a  good job of running the small marina on the western shore of the prettiest island we know of. Our hopes are that Scott stays as dockmaster and the JIA does not do any more development on the jewel in the crown of Georgia's coast. Alan, Arden, Kathy, Mark and Susan, Scott and Honey and Dave saw us off helping with the lines on a beautiful Sunday morning to leave on. Susea was hoping Grady and Pearl Ann were coming too! Made good time to Cumberland and St. Mary's then we fought the tide to Jax. Southern Comfort was behind us and we ran into Sandra and Ron on their SV Sandra Louise south of Amelia Island. White Caps passed us in the Cumberland River Fernandina Marina  This one gives new meaning to roughing it. Susea let the dogs at the marina know