Back to Reality (I think)

Once you arrive back into a country, you need to do immigration for both yourself and your vessel.  We had chosen Ft. Pierce as we have our car nearby, how convenient is that! After a good sleep, it is now time to see Homeland Security and Customs.  When we arrived at the Airport, there were lots of other sailors too, renewing cruising permits and checking in.  It was slick.  As we had not driven a car in a few months, it felt strange and the traffic, well what can you say.  We took "Tango" (Chris and Brenda) around to get groceries and to West Marine.  We anchored out a few days, said good bye and here we are today at Nettles Island.  It's scrub up, wash up, do the laundry and close up the boat for another season.  We will be here till the end of April.

This was just the other day on the ICW, we did not hear what actually happened but this boat was anchored not far from us, we think he was slow and the bridge tender was lowering the spans.  He got caught up in the span.  Good bye to his wind indicator, vhf antennae, a broken spreader and his forestay! The bridge was closed for about an hour.  Not a good way to end your holiday.