Beautiful cruising day! A flybridge day with temps in the high 70s.

We went farther up the Saint John's River today just to tour it. The morning was all like traveling on any big waterway...too wide to see much but nice anyway, however, the afternoon was very cool. The river narrowed down and was very pretty, shore to shore.
This is "Loose Stones", Bill and Jane Stone's boat, whom we were traveling with today. We were planing this morning when I thought I could see a bald eagle flying low at their bow watching for fish in the bow wave. It's a pretty picture, but unfortunately even when I blow up the picture, I can't tell for sure if it's an eagle.
Then this afternoon we cruised slow through scenic waters. Later went through Murphy's Creek as a side trip to our side trip up the St. John's. This is a picture of the chart for the Saint John's river, which is at the top of the page. Murphy's creek is the twisting, turning creek below the river and both ends of the "creek" open into the St. John's so you can go all the way through it back to the big river. If you stay to the outside of the bends, there's plenty of water depth for our boats.
Murphy's Creek was very beautiful and very green against the dark waters. It was also full of water lilys, turtles, alligators and lots of birds. This big guy was really big, or as Frank (Kathy's father) would say...."a bulligator".
Now we're anchored out behind some islands far away from the main river channel. We had the Stones over for dinner tonight and they brought salad and appetizers. It's a very nice spot and a good spot acroaa the river to land the dogs.

At the anchorage, we even had our own little alligator, about 2 1/2 feet long on the shore next to our boat.
Tomorrow, we'll go back down the Saint Johns towards Jacksonville again. I ordered new sea stairs to replace the damaged ones and today they arrived at the marina where we'll be on Monday, so problem solved. We'll wait to see how Jax insurance claims adjuster handles it. I talked to them today too.