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Saturday 1/28/12.    We weighed anchor at 8:45A.  Little Buddy had already made his appearance for the day.  He preened himself as if getting spruced up to say good bye.

On the way back we decided to “blow out the pipes” and I opened her up.  Soon the boat was on plane and the GPS showed 18.6 mph.  A little later we made good 21 mph for a short time.  Then as we got closer to traffic and the manatee zones we slowed down to our regular cruise setting and came back at 8.6.  It will be interesting to see how much change in fuel consumption there was.

As we arrived back in Ft. Myers and passed under the Caloosahatchee Bridge, we could see quite a party on shore in the park.

 After we had the boat secured in the slip we walked over to see the goings on.  It was the 9^th Annual Caloosahatchee Celtic Festival.  There were vendors selling T shirts, jewelry, hand crafts, giant beer truck and just about every Celtic delicacy to temp your palate.  On stage there were musical groups and dancers.  There were entries from the Southwest Florida British Car Club.  I didn’t see any one who wasn’t having a good time!

We walked back to the boat and Linda started some housekeeping (or should I say boatkeeping) chores.  I worked on the blog.  When we got hungry we walked back to the Celtic Fest for fish and chips, and bar-b-que.  We also had some of the world’s worst funnel cake!

We noticed that First Street and some of the side streets were blocked off.  There was a classic car and hot rod show downtown. 

 What a trip down memory lane.  I found a white 1965 Plymouth Barracuda, just like the one I cruised these very same streets in as a teenager.  It was kind of neat how they allowed 60s music to be played on speakers all down First Street. Linda loved the architecture of many of the old buildings downtown.  You just don’t find that at the mall.

When we got back to the boat we realized this was a big day!

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