Wow....the end of January already! This first month of 2017 really flew by! We arrived in Fort Myers at the Edison/Ford Marina around 10:30. Two friendly dock hands, Elijah and Brandon welcomed us and later, Carley, the dockmaster, gave us a tour of the showers, laundry, office, etc.
This is the marina where Ryan, Mark, Michael and Philip stayed in December after the gulf crossing.
We are in a slip right beside the "Pure Fort Myers" tour boat which goes out 3x a day giving folks a taste of the Caloosahatchee River and seeing manatees, dolphins (maybe), bald eagles, and other wildlife along with some history of Fort Myers, he Edison/Ford Museum, etc.
At 9:10 we were thru the Franklin Lock and on our way.
Fort Myers skyline
After lunch, we took our laundry to the Happy Wife Laundromat (10 miles south) and got 4 big loads done! Tah dah! There's only 1 washer and 1 dryer here at the marina, so....best to go somewhere and get it all done at once.
While I was doing laundry, Mark picked up the cushions we had recovered for the bridge. We'll put them out tomorrow after we give Catrina a good scrubbing!
Tonight we went to a docktail (cocktails on the dock) party and farewell to Bill and Toni who are leaving tomorrow after being here several months. Bill and Toni's "story" is similar to ours. They sold their home in Arkansas and now live either on their boat or RV. We met so many nice folks (some of them Loopers, some just passing thru for one night, others who are staying indefinitely, but always so interesting to hear "their" story)
Pinchers is the restaurant here at the marina and they provided the appetizers! At the end of our long dock, there is a nice area by the water for having a party so that's where we went to meet new friends, enjoy the awesome sunset + great food and our own beverages. It was a fun late afternoon/early evening - then once the sun set, it was chilly and we all scurried back to our boats!
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