February 4th Day 207

Today was a great day in the Sunshine State(finally). It reached the 80 degree mark today.
We were going to borrow the bikes here and head to West Marine and the hardware store. Well when we asked the dock master for the bikes he said would you rather use a car. With out hesitation we both said yes in unison. He let us use his car which was a NEW Mercedes, what a ride. Now we got this new car, not sure where we are going and in heavy traffic. We made it with out problems. When we went to the store we parked the car out in the middle of nowhere and when we came out there were cars all around the car, no dents or scratches. Got back to the marina without problems. It was good he let us use his car as the store was 6 miles one way. We figured our legs and behinds would have taken a few days to recoup after that distance. We made a filter system to filter water from the dock into the tank. This will give us dual filtration before we use the water. Buying drinking water gets expensive and some places or when at anchor don't have water to buy. Thought about using the pool today but time ran out. It is great being able to have the heat off and the windows open.

Lin & Rich
Twin Dolphin Marina
Manatee River