And Back to the Chesapeake – Day 3

We are in Port St. Lucie, right in front of the lock on the Okeechobee waterway.  From here we could probably be in Vero Beach in a day.  The wind here is just honkin’ at a steady 25+ mph, with guts upwards of 30 to 35 mph.  Not the situation you want to be out on the water in.  We are at a camping/RV park that has boat slips, and are tied up fine with no intention of going anywhere soon.  There are seven lines on the boat holding it down and two fenders keeping us off the dock and the boat next to us.  So far things have been ok, a little groaning and squeaking from the lines and fenders but you get used to it and don’t really hear it after a while.  The wind is supposed to continue like this for the next several days, so it doesn’t look like we are going anywhere soon.  Today Rick and I went on a hike for a couple miles, read a little bit and I actually took a little power nap.

 

Since we have electricity full time here, we decided to break out the crock pot.  We had three pork chops in the freezer and some carrots and celery in the refrigerator, some potatoes and some cream of mushroom soup in the cabinet.  Sounds like dinner to me.  I put everything in the crock pot and let it cook all afternoon.  By dinner time the pork chops were so tender you could cut them with a fork, and the veggies were done.  The soup made nice gravy over everything, and boy was it good.  There were no leftovers.

Tomorrow will most likely be more of the same so we will be staying put again.

So boys and girls, until then….