Life At The Fort Myers City Yacht Basin
We thoroughly enjoyed spending half of January, February and March in Fort Myers. Our marina, Fort Myers City Yacht Basin, is located in the heart of the historic district.
This was our home for 2 1/2 months. You can even see where we parked our gray Honda Odyssey on the left side of the picture.
Since we drove our vans down to Florida, we were able to keep the Honda right here at the marina. We paid $45 a month for a parking space close to the marine. We had a Farmers Market just a few blocks away every Thursday morning, and a Publix grocery store 1 mile away. We had a great downtown area with quaint shops and restaurants within walking distance. We saw lots of beautiful sunsets and sunrises here in Florida (We don’t see many sunrises since we like to sleep in). Most of these pictures were taken off our back deck in Fort Myers. What a great view! We were out on A dock and our back door was Caloosahatchee River and it was wonderful.
One of the few sunrises that we saw.
What we looked at out our back door.
The dock that we walked down every day.
Another beautiful sunset. Some days we would have 60-80 foot yachts pull up and stay for a while. Gorgeous boats.
My favorite sunset picture.
Once a month the Yacht Basin would have a Cook-out night where our Dockmaster Leif would cook burgers and hotdogs and people on the dock would bring a dish to pass and get a chance to meet each other and socialize.
While we were there we had to sell some things
This was the dinghy came with the boat. We put our old dinghy on the boat so we had to sell this boat.
Sadly, we sold our 1997 Ford Van that we have had since it was new.
John was sick for over 5 weeks. He had a lung infection and they had to put him on steroids, and give him an antibiotic. He’s lost about 20 lbs. over the winter working so hard everyday on the boat.
John at the Urgent Care Center
We went to some fun Festivals that they had within walking distance.
This is an annual festival that ended with a awesome night parade.
Lots of bands, floats, and dignitaries in the parade.
A wild St Patrick’s Day party downtown.
A Car Show Downtown. There were some real beauties!
There was an Art Exhibit all around the downtown area. This is just one of the 25 sculptures we visited.
We attended a chart review to help inform us about what to expect as we travel North this Spring and Summer. It was held at Legacy Harbor and was given by Robert Creech. We meet some other people that will be traveling up North this winter and made some new friends.
Here is Robert with paper charts and computer charts at the presentation. A little different than driving down that road and checking out signs and maps.
We ate at some good restaurants.
Ford’s Garage was one of our favorities.
Sushi on Valentines Day in Miami after we went to the Miami Boat Show.
We went shopping for things that we needed on the boat.
A rug that I found at the Fort Myers Flea Market. Great flea market with old and new stuff.
Not oven on board so we bought a toaster oven…
We had to sell our Recumbent bikes, so we bought folding bikes that won’t take very much space. We will be getting a lot of use on these after we put the van away.
Spent a LOT of time and money at West Marine
West Marine is a store that has all your boating supply needs and then some. John along with our good friend, Mark Mather spent a lot of time and money here.
Enjoyed meals and docktails with our good friends Mark and Becky Mather on our boat and on their boat, Mara Beel.
John Scott visits Mark and Becky. John went with them on their trip down to the Keys.
We met LOTS of new people and had lots of good times at Docktails and dinners.
This docktails party was actually on the docks. Most time they were on the back of the boat or on Mara Beel.
But mostly we just got familiar with and enjoyed our new home — our boat–OUR SHORT VACATION!
