Boat Search, Day V

5/28/07

I got up in the campground and began to prepare for the day. Since I was planning on looking at one boat in Palm Beach and possibly one in Marathon, I did not know where I would be spending the night so I packed up all of my things and took them with me. I made the drive up to Palm Beach and met the broker in the parking lot of a marina. He showed me the boat, a 25 foot Triton built in 1984, and I liked what I saw quite a bit. I spent about an hour going through the boat and found a few things that could use some fixing. When I was finished looking at the boat, I told the broker that I would call him and then spoke with my dad. We decided that this boat would be a god one for my trip, so I made an offer to the broker. We set up a sea trial for tomorrow. I went to West Marine to buy some supplies for my trip and then drove to Jonathan Dickinson State Park, which has a campground where I set up camp. I called my mother to tell her about the signs in the campground that tell people to leave the alligators alone. I saw plenty of wildlife including rats and tons of lizards but unfortunately no alligators. I did some research on dinghies to buy in the area and then went to the local movie theater since there was no wind in the campground to cool me down.