We are very happy with our accommodations here at Snook Bight Marina. The on-shore facilities are very new with beautiful bathrooms, showers, laundry facilities and a pool. There is also an on-site restaurant (which we haven’t had a chance to try yet). The grocery store couldn’t be closer – the Publix actually shares an entrance with the marina. Not only that, but fabulous Fort Myers Beach is just across the street. It doesn’t even take five minutes to walk there. And this is a beautiful beach, perfect for walking. In fact, we have already enjoyed a walk and a great sunset.
We decided we would like to have a rental car for our first week here. There are places we’d like to explore and errands we need to run that we can’t do without a car. After a bit of price shopping, we determined an Avis car that we would pick up at the airport was the best deal, so we set up the reservation and grabbed a taxi to the airport. After picking up the car, we stopped at a camping supply store in hopes of finding 12volt lights for under the counter in the galley. We have been looking for replacement lights for this location for awhile and have been unable to find anything that will fit. We found an LED light that might work at the camping supply – Fred will install the light and we’ll see what we think. Our other errands took us to the Sun Harvest Citrus company where we got some grapefruit, oranges and strawberry/orange juice. We also stopped at West Marina and picked up a few things we need.
While we were hanging out on the boat on Saturday, an underwater diver arrived at the marina. He was doing work on other boats and Fred asked him if he would do a visual inspection on Boreas. The inspection went well. Our zincs are in good shape, the bottom paint looks good and we have almost no green growth on the bottom. The diver brushed off a bit of growth on the water intake screens and brushed a few small barnacles off the trim-tabs. He recommended Fred take a brush to the trim tabs every week or so to keep them in good shape. This is all good news and we are glad we were able to have someone check things out for us.
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| looking south along Fort Myers Beach |
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| the sun beginning to set off Fort Myers Beach |
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| the sun is almost gone |
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| just the smallest sliver of sun is still showing |
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