The Pelican Gallery
Left Clearwater this morning and journeyed to our winter home at The Club at Treasure Island. Very interesting place as it is a private yacht club which has opened up to Loopers. I suspect like a lot of businesses, they are trying to attract more business and allowing Loopers to stay brings in additional revenue. In any case, the place has a great dining room, a large swimming pool with lap lanes, and a large exercise room. It is about a mile from the beach and is very close to where we normally vacation in the winter. One problem though is they have no facilities to pump out, so that means we will have to go to another marina to get a pump out. Notwithstanding that, it is perfect for us to leave our boat and spend some time in an area where we normally go every winter.
The trip down from Clearwater was interesting and we saw the area from a different perspective - the water. Usually we are driving on the road. Lots of bridges to go under and normally we could fit under most of them. The bridgemasters however are obliging and open on demand. At the Treasure Island Bridge, I was not sure I could make it under without taking out one of my radio attennas, so the bridgemaster said that he would open. However, I had to turn around and take another run while he opened the bridge. In turning around, we again rubbed bottom since we went a little out of the channel. Thank the Lord it was a sand bottom - very forgiving and you could power through it.
Had dinner on the boat and went to bed.
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