Piano bar? The rest of the story.

 Click the headline for the article.

State orders piano removed from Biscayne Bay

Now, this is really interesting

Anything can, and will happen in Miami.

Here's a mystery that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase ``piano bar.''
A grand piano recently appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, about 200 yards from the Quayside condominiums off Northeast 107th Street.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/24/2031940/mysterious-grand-piano-found-on.html#storylink=omni_popular#ixzz1CCOF2Pgj

For us here onboard Istaboa, we continued the birthday celebration by going to Jensen Beach. Dolphin Bar for cocktails followed by dinner at 11 Maple Street.
Good drinks and excellent food.

Adios,

Istabooa

Happy Birthday — Melonie

With all our love... Happy Birthday Mel

From the rest of Crew Istaboa

And in your honor, we think an encore showing of this little youtube is apropos.

Enjoy the Sandwich Mel, It's your day.
Go celebrate the malleable reality. (whatever that means) 

Tru... Tru...

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Photo by Stefano Unterthiner Photography

Quote by Ian Hart

Where the Hell is Matt?

 

Sadly, we take our good friend Peter back to the airport today. Crew Istaboa has really enjoyed his company.
Pete, we hope for you a speedy and complete recovery... Until next time, Adios.

So now we are poring over weather prediction sites and wave heights in the Gulf Stream. We're starting to feel the itch to put some blue water under Istaboa.


Came across this little YouTube and thought some of you may not have seen it. It will make you smile.
Chances are you have viewed it; it has had over 34 million hits.
We apologize to our cruising buddies in the islands where internet bandwidth is slim to none. But, Hey!... You guys should be enjoying the island life and not surfing the net. So we don't feel too bad.
For you lucky souls out there anchored out from some remote little island, open a cold Kalik or Redstripe and let the video buffer up. It will make you smile even more.


About Matt on page 2

Good Albury day...

The sun was out, the wind was light, and the St. Lucie was flat. Sounds like a perfect day to take out the Albury for lunch up in the Manatee Pocket.
Captain Spooner is in town and wanted to see the Hinckley Yard, so off we went. After tooling around and salivating over the Hinckleys, we motored over to lunch at Finz.
Yes Tracey, ... this time I had the Mussels and they were great.

After lunch the 3 of us buzzed over to Wahoo's for a quick beer before heading home.
Another good day amongst many. Pete had a great time.

Also an interesting video on page 2.
Experience what it might be like to go on an expedition to Antarctica through this amazing video journey.

Very cool boat

First saw this in it's early stages of construction at a ship yard in Mobile Bay a few years ago. Guess they have finally finished it.
More pics of the Navy's newest ship.... Here

Nice youtube video

Nothing about boats, just a heart warming slideshow.

Getting closer...

Not a free ticket yet, but we're closer than ever to visiting the forbidden island nation of Cuba.

article here...

New rules for travel to Cuba

The livin's easy

Not a lot going here in Stuart... Took Mel into Ft. Lauderdale to meet a couple of old friends who have a layover in FLL. Flight Attendant reunion at Karen's.
I drove her down, then Will and I went to South Port Raw Bar for lunch. My favorite pup in Fort Lauderdale. Good pub-grub, great view.

When we got home one of the marina guys told me Radar had a package in the office... His new Raincoat had arrived.

He doesn't appear to care for it, but he probably will on the next cold and rainy day. We shall see.
As I said; not much going on here. But, this weekend is the Stuart Boat Show which may be interesting. Again, we shall see.

Adios,

Istaboa