At approximately 12:10 Monday morning Tropical Storm Beryl made landfall on Jacksonville Beach. St. Augustine is just south of Jacksonville. I was up chatting with friends and family and playing Internet games. I am getting hooked on Margaritaville Online. I blame Bill for that. Anyways, we were rocking and bouncing quite a bit with rain pouring down. I sleep very well in this weather. At a little after 1 am Monday I woke up to Bill looking out of the salon window on the starboard side. He said he heard engines and was afraid someone may be in trouble. Who would be out in this weather? It was one of the marina's boats. They were redocking next to us. Everything looked under control so we went back to sleep.
Monday morning Bill came back from getting the paper. Part of the dock a few slips away had broken. It was blocked off with rope and it was listing a bit. That was why the boat was moved next to ours overnight. The marina has staff on 24/7 including holidays. They walk the docks all of the time. Very nice and knowledgeable people. No damage to any boats here in the marina. The wedding that was scheduled to take place at 6:15 the day before was successfully moved to 1:00.
Monday afternoon we went to Meehans, an Irish Pub (surprised? I think not!!) for lunch. This place overlooks the bay on the other side of the Bridge of Lions. Bill did point out that Towboat US was going over to a boat moored there in the field. It was far out so we couldn't really tell what was going on and if it was storm related.
Tuesday was rainy in the morning but the sun came out in the afternoon. Nothing much happening. People that work in the downtown area said that they didn't get as much business as usual. This whole weekend was a washout due to TS Beryl. The city, like many southern cities right now, are in need of rain due to a drought. It's just to bad it happened this weekend. I think someone forgot to tell Mother Nature to check her calendar.
Patti and Bill :-)
Sailboat Cruising and Living Aboard Enigma, our Pearson 35. We are traveling down the eastern coast of the United States. Our Final destination is?????
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