Mark was up early (as always) while I slept in this rainy gloomy morning. We heard the rain overnight which makes for good sleeping on Catrina.
Mark has the logistics somewhat planned for where we'll stop, visit and spend the night(s) for the next 7 ports heading east. There are more marinas along the way, but so small, they can only handle 28' boats, so we'll pass those by.
We left arouond 8:30 for the Monkey Island Coffee House which is in an old Shipyard Building. It was 6/10 of a mile away and already humid when we started out. Walked past very nice condos, town homes, etc. and boats in the Shipyard Marina on the Black River. What a lovingly restored building. It now houses an event center, wine/cocktails, brewery, restaurant and the coffee house. Enjoyed our coffees and pastries at Monkey Island.
The Shipyards
And then we were off for another mile to St. Anthony of Padua for 10:00 Mass with Father Edward Smith. The AC felt so good after our "warm" walk. This church is in an older residential secion of Lorain and backs up to Lake Erie. The congregation consisted of almost all seniors and no children (except for one girl altar server). Unnfortunately, it was not that well attended. We've noticed that while some churches are pretty full these Sundays since the pandemic, other folks are still not returning?
St. Anthoiny of Padua
Walked back to the marina in the warm sunshine and as we were coming down our dock, several fishermen were standing around admiring their "very successful" catch of the day. A charter boat had taken these guys out and wow............check out all the walleye!
Yum....some very good eating coming up! This is just a portion of them as captain was still taking them from cooler and hanging them up.
A quiet, cool afternoon on Catrina reading and doing computer stuff. Around 4ish we walked to The Shipyards (actually the name of the entire complex) and had an early dinner in The Boiler Room. Mark had the salmon, rice and asparagus and I had the seafood flatbread - all very good. Love the neat atmosphere and all of this is just 1 year old.
7 siblings were on zoom tonight -good visiting as always! We missed Joan, Theresa, Nancy, Jim and Tom Henkel
Wishing you a cooler, healthy, safe week ahead!
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