Tarpon Springs

Whew, after a 28 hour sail, we are now anchored here on the south end of Ancolte Island. We left Carrebelle around 9am and sailed out into the gulf ( the big pond) we sailed for a few hours and the chart plotter would not find us, so Pierre told me to go down below and find the book, I did and he read up on it and the furuno told him it was broken...BROKEN....and about now the auto pilots went out..so he said let's go back, I said hell no..we go on ....I only had 2 hous sleep because someone had to be at the helm steering. Long story short..we made it with no worries, well lots of worries on my part!
  After a day of rest and some research, I called the City Marina and talked to Ted, the dockmaster, after a lot of questions on my part we had a slip waiting on us. The next day I said to Pierre lets dingy in and check it out before we take the " little ship" up the river, boy are we getting good at launching the dink, it only took us about 30 minutes this time!  So off we go to the City Marina what a joke Tarpon Springs should be ashamed, very ashamed, the docks are a mess and they do allow live a boards, they charge a small fortune..etc..needless to say we could not stay there, so Ted felt bad and called a friend whom has a dock next to the Marina, but alas, the story of my life, we just missed it, he has another boat coming in so it was spoken for. Well what to do, so we had lunch at a authentic Greek restaurant, Kimmy you were right the spina thing with spinach was good and we had some sort of flaming cheese too! Their pita bread was to die for! Then we went on the hunt for a slip, what a joke this town is for cruisers, we soon learned to say "no we do not live aboard" because we finally found a place and after we talked to the man and we must have told him about 4 or 5 times we lived on the boat, got all the paper work done and everything, he said so you live on the boat and we said yes again...then he took the paper work and told us to go away, he didn't allow live a boards...go figure..I was pissed and hot. After all day we finally found a place and again Gene the dockmaster told us no live a boards, but there is a man that lives on his sailboat here!! They gig transients and cruisers here..me no like...but we had to take the slip. We will head in tomorrow!

Rainbow over Tarpon Springs