We left around 9:00 after Debbie took Abby for her morning walk and breakfast aboard. The scenery was getting better all the time and we made good time passing "First Forty" as they stopped at a Marina in Clifton TN. We were all charged up and full of water so no need for a marina tonight. Debbie and I took Abby over to Dickey Island and raced her up and down the beach in the dingy. She can run as fast as the dingy goes or at least 20 mph. By the third round trip she was tired out and we headed back to the boat for cocktails. On the way over to the beach we stopped and chatted with "Lab Partners" a 36' Monk and agreed we had found a very nice anchorage for the night. There is room for about 20 boats here without even being close to another boat. When we came back from he beach we stopped by El Capitano and found out they had left Finland in their Beneteau sailboat last year and sailed down to Portugal and then over to the Canary Islands and then to the Caribbean. The captain used to be a frighter captain and had sailed up the St Lawrence and the Great Lakes while on duty. He seemed very comfortable and he told us they would be spending the winter in the islands, including Cuba and then cross to Bermuda and back to Portugal and Finland. Quite the adventure!! I don't think I'm quite that brave nor do I have the boat for that unless I had a tanker with fuel following me!
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