Thurs, March 25, 2010 - Stuart, FL

The original plan was to fly out of Stuart with the Holts this morning; however, we got a call from Mark last night saying that we were going to stay another day and leave early Friday morning instead. No problem there – it gave us a chance to enjoy the morning at the condo and spend a little more time with Kathy. Check out that sunrise – the photos were taken from the guest room balcony where we slept last night.



Kathy had a golf lesson at 10 am, so we helped ourselves to some breakfast, read the paper and watched a little TV news while she was out. Upon her return, we gathered up our things and headed to the beach to do a little shelling and let Lucy run. Kathy showed us their boat, White Label, and we talked about her and Charlie’s dream of doing “The Loop” when he retires. Before dropping us off at the marina, we picked up a couple of large sandwiches at a local deli and ate them at an outside table as we soaked up the sunshine.




We arrived at Adventure about 2 pm, just before Mark, Di, and Michael (their company controller) returned from lunch. We settled into our cabin and then helped Mark and Di with a few chores around the boat. At 6 pm, we moved the boat over to the fuel dock and spent the next hour or so taking on diesel fuel. Mark thought that fuel prices would likely be going up between now and the time we took off on our big adventure in May. With a 1,600 gallon fuel capacity, even a few cents makes a big difference in cost!

After fueling, we walked up to Wahoo’s for a little dinner before calling it a night.