Jacksonville Beach, FL

Finally, we set off from Palm Coast on Monday morning, April 30 as soon as the tide allowed. After many thanks to John and Mary, we left at 9:30 bound for our next stop in Jacksonville Beach to visit even more friends! We had an uneventful cruise up the ICW through the beautiful Guana Tolomata Matanzas Reserve and up past the homes in Ponte Vedra (our old stomping grounds).

We arrived in the late afternoon at Palm Cove Marina at very low tide and we struggled to get into our slip which was silted up.  That evening, our good friends Alex and Natalie Costas hosted us for a delicious Mexican dinner at their home and we even got to visit with their son, Niko and Alex’s parents who were visiting from Oklahoma.

The next day Jonny had lunch with his former boss and Lynn lunched with her Florida Blue colleagues. After doing an array of errands we had dinner at Safe Harbor where we dined on our favorite local Mayport shrimp. We walked the two miles back to the boat amid some very picturesque vistas.