Gale spent the morning on some maintenance chores including changing the engine oil and filter as well as the primary fuel filter. He also tried to determine why the alarm for the starter seemed to be malfunctioning – a good cleaning of the parts helped, but it will need further investigation soon. As we were going about our tasks, we saw a cruiser approaching that looked a lot like Ladybug, our friends from Port St. Joe. Sure enough, when they were closer we could see that it was Russ and Cindy so we hailed them on the marine radio. They had just completed their Gulf crossing and were headed back home to Tampa. They had been on vacation for the last few weeks but needed to get back in time for a graduation on Friday and to return to work next week. We said we would try to look them up whenever we continued on our way.
At 2:15 we left our spot near the Dunedin Marina to make our way to the Clearwater Municipal Marina for diesel fuel and to check out the anchorage near there. The winds were strong and coming from the southwest at the time, but forecast to switch out of the north later on. We finished fueling and found our anchoring spot at 4:15 pm. By then, we thought it was too late to take the dinghy out to do any more exploring, so we settled in and enjoyed the rest of the evening. Gale tried out some of his new fishing lures and techniques. He was catching a small fish on every cast, but he couldn’t immediately identify the type beyond that it had teeth and it was a predator. He did have a few hits by what appeared to be red snapper, but he wasn’t able to get any of those out of the water.
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