Oh, ok, I thought that was brackish water you were in, looking at it. Never know for sure, until you're told.
The nice thing about freshwater boating is that a person doesn't have to use flushing muffs on the outdrive of the I/O. Every time we came off of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, we had to flush our engine. That part of the St. Johns River was brackish (salt/fresh) water. Freshwater started south of Jacksonville. Still have flushing muffs, but only use them at boat/rv storage if we want to start the engine. Funny, but we were told that we could boat year-round in Jacksonville, Florida. Well, that sure turned out as not true! Northern Florida, at times, can get pretty darn cold during a so-called "Florida winter".
True, here where I am these rivers are fresh water, so I don't have to flush either. But it's not too far away if I wanted to go to brackish or salt water. I have the muffs but seldom use them. It does get cold here during winter sometimes, like last week it got down to 17 degrees here, with that cold front that came through.
We have video of snow falling on Southside Jacksonville on December 25th 2010 (AM). we were very shocked that it could get that cold anywhere in Florida. We flushed our engine and outdrive every time we came off of the river.
I did a lot of shrimping growing up from 6 yo to a teen and we saw lots of beautiful warm days turn into a storm all of a sudden, raining, lightning, and even hail in summer. We were so far out you couldn't see any land at all. Being so young it was quite scary, to say the least. Once I was hit from behind by a shrimp door, and it knocked me off the boat. Then another time a fin of a sheep-head fish stuck in my hand and it swoll up full of infection for a couple of weeks before healing. Hated it they were making money and I was stuck at home.
When someone wants to get there in a hurry. Interesting to see. Spirit of Australia, "317.6 miles per hour on the water".
That river looks so peaceful and beautiful, and like it would be good fishing, @Jake Smith ! is that the St. John’s River that you have mentioned before or is this a different river ?
It's the Santa Fe, which does run all the way into St Johns river. I've traveled both for years now. And it is very peaceful at times, depending on weather, the current is kind of strong at times.
I remember us talking the dogs and cats down the Intercoastal in Jax,Fl. [ they were all over that boat,] a man on another boat, yelled " Noahs Ark". Jake knew the man from work.
We had broken down and John a coworker of mine came up and pulled us back in, the next day at work he told other coworkers, that it looked like Noah's ark, all the animals on that boat, and they all had a good laugh.
We almost got lost at sea in that little boat, we were in the marsh, it stopped running, the tide 3was doing out, so were we. SIL was with us crying 'I'm never going to see my baby's again'. Her' babies' had babies of their own.
Bonnie is in the picture twice, far left and far right, in different poses. It was weird. Jake and his brother got it started before we were in open seas.