We had a great time in St. Augustine and took in a lot of history on the Trolley Tour. Much more than we will ever remember. Saw the fountain of youth, statue of Ponce de Leon, old buildings, Flagler college, statue of Flagler, Casillo de San Marcos (the fort), cigar factories, house with a cannon ball in the wall, statues of the founder Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. Very cool place. We highly recommend it!
Friday morning we got up ready to head north again. The night before we decided we should get fuel and planned to leave at slack tide around 8 and stop in at the City Marina for fuel since we didn't think there was fuel at our marina. May not sound like a big deal but every additional stop is another chance to ram something accidently. Thinking about getting out of a narrow slip, navigating the river out to the main channel and stopping at a crowed city marina and then making 60 miles... we didn't sleep well.
Then he appeared. Our Diesel Angel. Through the morning haze Jane saw him first, a halo (or ball cap) around his head, a diesel nozzle as his trumpet standing there on our dock! She was of course afraid to speak to a real live Deity so I was elected to approach him. "Yes of course I can fuel you up." Yay! Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of fuel without leaving our slip! Fifteen minutes later we pulled out and headed to Fernandina Beach with one stop eliminated by grace.
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