January 1, 2015

Back on the boat departing Tarpon springs, Florida

Well we returned to the boat from our holiday visit back to Homewood and Tinley Park , Illinois for the holidays. We returned to Turtle Cove Marina where we had left the boat and our two cats. Jim and Katie, marina employees had agreed for a slight fee  to feed and scoop the cats while we were gone. They did a nice job but cats will be cats and have special ways to show that they are not happy with you. In the case of our cats it is not allows using the litter box so, after washing down a couple of throw rugs and scrubbing the wood parquet floors in the v bunk the boat no longer smells like a couple of elephants have been peeing  in the boat. It never ceases to amaze me what terrible odors can be generated by such a small animal. So we had the rental car for half a day more so we provisioned the boat and got what we needed to head back out.

We did manage one more Greek dinner at our favorite Greek restaurant in Tarpon Springs, Costas and our waitress Voula. Also another loaf of Greek bread and baklava from National Bakery.

Double lamb shank and spaghetti dinner at Costa's

 

New Years Day was over cast as we waited for high tide to depart Turtle Cove Marina. The water gets a little shallow on the way to the gulf so we waited to make an easier trip. We departed at 10:40 and arrived out in the Gulf at 11:20 behind Anclote Island. We turned and headed south for warmer climates. We passed Dunedin, Clearwater, and Indian Rocks Beach on our way to Gulfport where we arrived at 1624 and anchored in front of the beautiful city of Gulfport among a fleet of sailboats.

Turtle Cove Marina our home since Dec. 1

departing and headingsouth

Looking down the channel in front of the sponge docks