After a nice day off (lay day) in Port Aransas, we set out from Port Aransas for our next destination - Rockport. Our lay day included scooter trips to the beach to swim and have lunch as well as out to dinner. I was the only one brave enough to test the surf with 25 knot winds... Probably not one of my best choices, but the water was warm...
The second picture shows one of the electric scooters loaded with a bag of swim gear and lunch -let's not forget lunch! We did find a nice sheltered spot for lunch along the ship channel in from the Gulf of Mexico.
Normally, we would have stayed another day in Port Aransas to wait for the winds of up to 29 knots to subside, but the trip to Rockport is short with only about 18 nm on our chosen route. We were in the Intra-Coastal Waterway (in a "ditch" or dredged channel) for all but about 3 miles so we were pretty protected from the wind and waves. However, the last three miles were in Aransas Bay which is wide and open with pretty good sized waves. Lucky Us handled the waves with no problem, but the dingy, which we store on the swim platform did shift somewhat precariously... Fortunately, there was no serious problem. but we will be rethinking the dingy storage and tie-down once again. Well, this is sort of an extended shake down cruise after all.
We plan to spend three nights in Rockport before we continue our homeward journey. This retirement thing is pretty good... We do not have any reason to rush!
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