Up the St. Johns River

We pulled up the anchor early this morning and motored about 3 hours up the river to visit with our friends on Now & Zen (Ralph and Leslie - you'll get to know them over the next few months!)

The St. Johns River is busy with barge and container ship traffic.

I love transiting these "industrial areas".  

We figured out that the blue/white ship is a car carrier.  We saw them unloading new cars.

 The Jacksonville skyline.

Many bridges on the trip.  Most were very high clearance so no worry for our 60 foot mast height.

We anchored near Ortega Landing and met up with our friends and future cruising partners.  They had a few "to-dos" - so we jumped in and assisted at little!  (Ralph and Duane making some bushings on the dock)

And we're here for the remainder of the week.  Robert is coming down to join us for the weekend so that will be fun!