We got the bikes off the boat and took a bike ride in the afternoon. We wanted to check out the beach here on the island. The beach is not overly large, but it is nice. There are bathrooms, showers for getting sand off as well as beautiful landscaping. The best part was the bike path we got to ride on the entire way there. I am very happy with my new bike. The seat and handlebars are comfortable and I can keep up with Fred in spite of the fact that he has 21 gears and I have one. That may change when we are in hillier areas, but it is not a big deal now.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Day 198 – at Sombrero Marina, Marathon - January 20, 2012
Today is our first full day in Marathon. The weather is fabulous with a start in the mid 60’s and a high in the upper 70’s. Fred decided that he would work on the speedo today. To clean the paddlewheel, he has to pull the entire transducer unit out of the bottom of the boat and replace it with the blank “bung”. So he crawled into the engine room with his sponge, bucket and toothbrush (for cleaning the gunk off the paddlewheel). When he pulled the transducer you could see right down to the sand underneath the boat. About a quart of water got in before he was able to re-plug the hole with the blank bung. The paddlewheel was indeed dirty, but a bit of scrubbing and scraping has it looking good again. Since we will not be moving the boat for a few days, we left the blank bung in. We will put the transducer back in next time we take the boat out.
We got the bikes off the boat and took a bike ride in the afternoon. We wanted to check out the beach here on the island. The beach is not overly large, but it is nice. There are bathrooms, showers for getting sand off as well as beautiful landscaping. The best part was the bike path we got to ride on the entire way there. I am very happy with my new bike. The seat and handlebars are comfortable and I can keep up with Fred in spite of the fact that he has 21 gears and I have one. That may change when we are in hillier areas, but it is not a big deal now.
Miles: 0 Bridges: 0 Locks: 0
We got the bikes off the boat and took a bike ride in the afternoon. We wanted to check out the beach here on the island. The beach is not overly large, but it is nice. There are bathrooms, showers for getting sand off as well as beautiful landscaping. The best part was the bike path we got to ride on the entire way there. I am very happy with my new bike. The seat and handlebars are comfortable and I can keep up with Fred in spite of the fact that he has 21 gears and I have one. That may change when we are in hillier areas, but it is not a big deal now.
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