After a very short day on the water yesterday, we deserved a day off. Right? Man, I love this retired life... Today, we left the boat about 11:15 am to scooter about 0.8 miles to Koler's Cobbler, which is a very nice little restaurant downtown. I had my "usual" lunch of broiled chicken on a Caesar salad and this just set the stage perfectly for peach cobbler with a scoup of ice cream followed by a nice nap back at the boat while the Admiral caught up on her netflix episodes (the marina's free internet is excellent).
After my nap, the Admiral lured me into walking a whole half mile to the Gemini Space Park. The first photo shows the sculpture that is the center piece of the memorial. Around the edge of the center piece are granite monuments with names, flights and pictures etched into the granite. There were also bronze hand prints for the astronauts. The setting was lovely and the "memorial" honored the gallant men of the Gemini missions in an impressive, but low key manner.
Then it was time for the gruelling half mile walk back to Lucky Us. My big accomplishment for the day was writing and addressing postcards for the grandkids. However, all was not lost since by then it was time for dinner. This time I insisted that we take the electric scooters since the (waterfront) restaurant was at least 2 tenths of a mile further than the Space Park. The final picture shows the Admiral and me out on the fishing pier with the restaurant in the background.
Tomorrow we are off again, travelling 33 miles north to New Smyrna Beach, which is only 15 miles south of Daytona Beach (for reference). We are slowly working our way north along the Florida coast to Jacksonville where we plan to spend more time exploring the St. Johns River.
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