Day 2 in Florida: Feels Like Paradise!

While friends are searching for paradise much further south, we've found instant paradise here in Fernandina Beach, Florida. The weather is nothing short of perfect, mid seventies. After 4 weeks of cold, rain, snow flurries, frost and ice, we are finally able to open the portholes and have warm fresh air flow through the cabin. The fish are biting, Porgies or Sheepshead, Archorsargus probatocephalus to be exact. Robert has already bought some Redfish from the local fish vendor. That should ensure some fish being caught today. It's a little joke we have. He and Daisie have taken the dinghy up river into the marshes and come back with a two pound Sheepshead. Sure enough, the joke's on us. There are a lot of oysters on the bottom so they make another trip back to the mother ship to pick up some extra tackle and they are off again. Robert calls on the VHS after a half hour to say he'd better quit soon because the earlier fish was just a baby. Two hours later and still no sign of the fishing crew. I hope they haven't been snatched by gators! Wait! I see them now, casting out by the marshy edge just across from where Bristol Rose is moored. Day 2 in Florida and we have freshly caught fish for dinner, not just one but three good-sized fish with the largest looking like four pounds or so.