23 March 2013

Rough Sea

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Temperature was going to be ok for today, but the winds were still blowing.  We attempted to go to Boca Grande, but after battling 3-4 foot waves for 3 miles we turned around and went back to the marina.  Then we went to Joe’s friends house in Cape Coral to explore the possibility of leaving the boat at their house (they live on a boat road/canal).  They have a very fine house. They were discussing the plans to demolish this fine home to rebuild it 6 inches higher to meet “code”.  It was either that or do a $400,000 remodel. After visiting them we went to the historic downtown district of Fort Myers waterfront and had lunch at Fords Garage. 
After lunch we walked over to the actual waterfront which is on the Caloosahatchie River.  There, much to our surprise/shock/amazement, were the Nina and Pinta, two of Christopher Columbus’ ships from his discover America Cruise. 
These two replica ships have been many places where we have been. Wherever we go, there they are! (quite amazing). Now it had started raining.  So in this rain, the five of us went to Cactus Jack’s for dinner. They initially seated us under a thatch roof, which was dripping all over us, so we moved.  The live jazz music was good and the food tolerable.

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