Return from Port Isabel Day 1

After 2 nights in Port Isabel, we decided to start a slow trip home. On our extra day in Port Isabel, there was shopping, some work on the boat, a dingy ride and a really fine dinner out.

We stopped at the first fuel dock that we passed.  Wow, diesel fuel for $3.39.9...  We have not seen diesel that cheap in ages so we pretty much filled up. We have 4 fuel tanks with sight gauges only so the measurements are not all that accurate, but a quick calculation determined that we could take on 220 gallons without over filling any of the tanks...  It was a little bit of sticker shock when I paid, but we can travel quite a distance before we need to fill up again...

We left about Noon after having to wait for nearly an hoour for a bridge that only opens "on the hour" during the week. The first picture is Lucky Us docked at the T-head (end of the pier). We stopped at the same marina on the way out and their regular docks were too narrow (although we did squeeze in). We took our electric scooters out to tour the town after dinner.  There were deer everywhere! Herds of 10 to 20 in vacant lots with scattered deer elsewhere. No wonder the locals have 6 foot high deer fences around their gardens.

Tomorrow we plan a long day back to Port Aransas, but if we spy a nice anchorage along the way, well, who knows...