Saturday, December 12, 2009

St. Augustine

Well as you can see we're still in Port Lucaya at Ocean Reef Yacht Club. Anth is in the hot tub relaxing after a hard day of sanding rust spots on the boat and putting primer on them. It wasn't all that rough but it's Happy Hour at Groupers in the Hot tub so we take our drinks up with us in our insulated coffee cups and visit and float for an hour. This is still a tease, my blog is only in St. Augustine on the ICW.
St. Augustine was so beautiful and so old. The streets were very narrow. We didn't get all of it walked but we tried.
The tiling on the outside walls reminded me of Horta in The Azores. They had a lot of that kind of tiling there.
Isn't it quaint and gorgeous? We dropped the hook in a little bay with lots of other boats and kayaked in. We took a taxi to the grocery store and there was a great pawn shop there with a Technic Keyboard but it was 300, too much for me but it did sound a lot like a piano. It was a bit too big too.
Isn't this a beautiful painting. There was lots of art here, very classy place.

They made the old buildings into the little shopping area and used things like the old Hospital as a small boutique.

They had lots of Pirate paraphenelia all around town, like this wooden statue.

I loved the old homes, a lot of Spanish archetecture.

We met a fellow from Port Dover who goes down there every year, single-handed, and stays there for the winter and then heads back up for the Canadian summer. It would be a great place to stay.

You can really see the Spanish influence.

This big building was made into a museum. The yards were all lit up at night. So beautiful.

I couldn't take enough pictures of all the buildings.











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