November 20

Today's trip was a bit longer at 55 miles, but took less time at 7.5 hours than yesterday's. We were finally at St. Augustine, one of our favorite places, but especially so because Susan and her family were coming in tomorrow to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with us. The anchorage north of the temporary replacement for the famous Bridge of Lions, proved to be challenging to say the least. After picking out what seem to be a large area in the middle for our boats, we anchored. Later, just after finishing a meal aboard Eagle's Wings, I called Walt back to his cockpit. There was a boat squarely between our boats. We all thought that it was dragging anchor. There was no way that that boat could have possibly swung that far without us swinging away at the same time. I even called the Coast Guard to report it as there was no one on board the boat. Another boat at anchor there called me and said that the boat was not dragging but that this was the kind of movement the wind and currents caused in this anchorage. I accepted the truth of this and resolved to go as far away from this area in the anchorage as I could. We reanchored and spent a peaceful evening.