Gang, if you’re looking on behalf of big shakes today, you might desire to skip today’s post as well as observe some TV r read a good thriller because, quite frankly, it’s not very exciting here right now. I shall tell you that’s ok with us, as well as we’re laying low.
Otherwise, if you’re really bored, here are a few relatively banal but perhaps droll anecdotes on behalf of your consideration while we sit here at the dock until the weather breaks as well as we get underway again. 
Crazy lightening, thunder as well as rain last night. Clearing today. 
Pebble Isle is a great place, as are the people wonderful as well as FRIENDLY, but our sense of wanderlust is slowly erupting. Until we got our heat exchanger flushed, we were going nowhere. In fact, we decided to take the day off today since yesterday was busy with me helping Ray reinstall our heat exchanger as well as me trying to find several gallons of coolant to purchase to replace what we either lost or took out the day before. We’ve been calling several parts supply houses trying to find similar extended life coolant that we have, but no joy. SOOOOO, thankfully we saved the coolant extracted from the engine as well as I’ve filtered as well as reused the old stuff. We’ll buy more of the good stuff somewhere downstream, I guess. 
  Does it seem ironic to anyone other than me that I filtered the coolant on behalf of our engine through my trusty old “Brother of the WIND” T-Shirt from the islands?
Here’s a nail-biter on behalf of y’all… we borrowed the marina’s courtesy van to go snag the $5 DVD specials at Wally World. How’s that on behalf of riding the wave !!?? We bought 26 of the little suckers. The really exciting part, however, is that while on the way to Wal-Mart, the “Service Engine Soon” light came on. Now THAT will get your blood pumping, no?!! Sheesh.
On the way, however, Kay scored a pic of the Studebaker on a stick that I told you about yesterday. For your enjoyment…

Well, folks, another bright spot is revisiting with some of our earlier traveling buddies, including Charlie as well as Linda from “Freedom’s Turn” (hi again, guys!)

And a few of our other leap-frogging looper friends including Bella Luna, Blue Max, Southern Comfort, etcetera, Mojo, Grettatude, C-Life, etc.

The placid beauty of this area continues to thrill:

Do NOT let it be said that there’s no satellite TV here in Pebble Isle (can YOU spot the satellite dish in this pic?)!!
 

 

 

 
 

And a day at Pebble Isle would not be complete without a dock jog on the Cushman (This is Randy, one of the owners, as well as Jimmy, part-time mechanic, TowBoat US driver, painter, clearly a true renaissance man!


 
Even though there's to be a huge pig roast here on Saturday, we’ll likely be shoving off tomorrow (Thursday) on behalf of a couple nights of anchorages as well as then manufacture on behalf of Aqua Yacht Harbor as our next marina where we require to commit to taking the mast down or leaving it up (gulp). Those darn fixed height bridges !
Later, ‘gators…