Burntside Adventures

Presently we are sitting in an anchorage in Peck Lake, about 10 miles southeast of Stuart, Florida. We pulled in here yesterday early afternoon, knowing I had to work today and that the weather was going to deteriorate. We were able to get a workout in enroute with dumbells and resistance bands from inside the pilot house. Yesterday was beautiful, had a great walk on the beach after taking the dinghy down and motoring the couple hundred yards to shore, and hiking across the isthmuz another couple hundred yards. The anchorage had a dozen boats last night, half of them left this morning. The beach was isolated however. This morning Cindy ran the beach for 5 miles and I hiked it, again pretty much alone other than gulls terns and pelicans. The wind came up and is about 30 mph out of the north and we are sitting tight with the plan to pull out and head towards Miami in the morning. likely take a copuple of days to get there, but short days. We saw boats here form Denmark and Toronto. Talking to folks they all think we are Canucks too. Finally, we had an interesting experience last night. At dusk, I went down into the engine room, just to check on a couple of things. I heard water dripping or electical clicking, with my hearing, I am never sure and couldn't determine the direction. I crawled all over and into skinny spaces looking for the source. Cindy crawled around and couldn't locate it either. We tore the lazarette apart under the aft deck. I checked all fittings and bilges. Then recalled something I had read about crustaceans on the outside of the hull making this kind of noise. We googled it and figured it out. Critters eating crap off the bottom of the hull.
Engine Hours 4782.1
Genset Hours 5418.0