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Once Around the Barn– October 29, 2022, Palm Coast Marineland, Florida USA

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Once Around the Barn – October 29, 2022, Palm Coast Marineland, Florida USA

Today, we turned in our trusty steed.  We have had our little rental car since April, and she has been great.  Officially we have been carless for the last year, but it’s nice to only have to rent when you need one and not pay all the time. 

This car actually drove itself.

Amazing to think but we put more miles on the car than it had on it when we picked it up.  We started with 6,000 and ended with over 19,000.  Here’s a fun fact…Sailing Hubby and I have travel over the circumference of the earth this year.  The circumference of the earth is ~24,000+ miles.  We have traveled 9,000 miles by motorcycle out to the west coast, 13,000 via car to Ohio visiting family and back to Florida, then 2,000+ nautical miles back from the Bahamas.

Anyway, after we dropped off the car, we decided to catch the Ohio State vs. Penn State game for the afternoon then headed home.  All was fine and OSU won (yeah!), except when we came home, the bilge light was on, and something was running.  Uh Oh!!  Turns out I think we had two issues.  First was we are on the T dock and must have gotten a bad wake that triggered a faulty bilge switch.  There was minimal water and no additional coming on.  So, since Hubby determined it was electrical, he swapped out the faulty sensor and we were good to go.  Whew!  It is never a good feeling to come back to the bilge light on – ever.

This light should be called the “oh shit” light

Then we found out our friends, who were staging at the Jekyll Island Marina, had gotten hit by someone trying to dock without their full engine controls! Crazy. No damage to them or their boat but that would be awful! Another close call.

While I am sure we could fix things on the boat forever, the time has come, and we are on the move again.  It’s time to leave our little haven in Marineland.  For day one we passed Daytona and were now trying to time the tides to get under all the bridges on the Intercoastal.  So far so good but the closest one we scraped on last year was in Vero Beach.  At least we had dolphins to kick off our trip again this year!