THE JOURNEYS OF TERRMAR IV: MAY 6-8,2013- ST. AUGUSTINE, FL

OUR PLAN

We are writing this blog for one reason and one reason only. To provide a vehicle to make it easier to remain in touch with our family and friends back home.

Our plan is simple. Depart our home port of Goderich, Ontario in the Summer of 2011. Cruise Georgian Bay and the North Channel of Lake Huron while visiting some of the ports and anchorages we have missed over the years. As well as revisiting some of our favourite haunts hopefully with some of our very good friends with whom we have cruised with many times before. All the while adding up the miles and gaining experience with our new trawler. Our first and only self imposed deadline is to be in the Chicago area around Labour Day. South of Chicago, weather and circumstances will guide us!

Monday, May 20, 2013

MAY 6-8,2013- ST. AUGUSTINE, FL

We arrived at our destination, Camachee Cove Yacht Harbor at a rising tide. The current can be extremely strong at this marina’s very narrow entrance and it did not help to have a small fishing boat exiting the entrance channel right in the middle. Captain Mark fought the current and managed to keep Terrmar from ending up on the bank. We would have liked to have more time to explore this city and definitely will return sometime in the future – so much to see and do! We chose to tour the National Monument of Castillo de San Marcos and it did not disappoint. It has over 335 years of history and was originally built by the Spanish to protect its settlements in 1672.

Terri