2008-04-04 Friday - the winds picked up this morning but they are out of the East so it will not affect those  heading back .. just after 09:00 am PORTA PARTY, MAD HATTER and YATCH Z headed out and shortly behind them were CATALYST and CHRISTINA .. DEE LIGHT will be staying an extra night so we can take Danielle to the Mote Aquarium .. at 11:00 am we took the Public Bus to the Mote Aquarium and on our return trip we stopped at the St Armands Circle for ( yup ) Ice Cream .. when we returned to the Marina the Harbormaster told us that Autumn had made her way off the Boat and had made a number of friends .. when we were gone the WINDS also picked up to well over 30 knots ..

2008-04-05 Saturday - DEE LIGHT left the Yacht Club about 09:00 am ( due to the Tide ) .. due to the high winds we headed South via the ICW .. it was slow going in part due to all the other Boaters out were also on the ICW and with it being a Saturday there were a lot of Boaters out there .. we had planned to spend the night on the Hook at Pelican Bay but by the time we made it to Pelican Bay it was Low Tide and the WINDS had three footers right in area where we would be on the Hook  .. so we continued on to Fort Myers ..

 NOTE  - this concludes the photos etc from the RPYC Festa Italiana Cruise .. for additional photos from Ringling Museum, the Mote Aquarium etc 'click' on the links above .. ( working on them yet ) ..