Sunday's mission was to shuttle the car up this far. We rented a car then tried to catch some brunch. After the second strike out (more than an hour wait!), there was a Duck Donuts across the lot. I was not familiar with DD, but was intrigued.
So this is the fast pizza equivalent of donuts. They place your glaze, toppings and whatnot on a freshly fried donut. Because they are piping hot fresh they are the lightest I think they could be and still be considered cake donuts. They also had breakfast sandwiches, also served on freshly fried donuts. If Heather gets one of those pearl opening franchises, I'm getting one of these.
We drove the rental car down to Brunswick, making it both ways each in one shot. Between we had one last lunch at Porch. After returning to Charleston we dropped off the rental car and returned to the marina with our car. We picked up our Amazon packages at the marina office on the (long) walk back down the Mega Dock.
On Monday morning I tried to drain the engine fuel filter of any water. I let in some air bubbles in but no water (or fuel) came out. Guess I need to break the seal on top, but the exercise got me better at hanging upside down with my head in the aft lazerette, so I was able (with a mirror) to get a good view of the fuel bowl. There was some crap in the very bottom of the bowl which looked like it had been there a long time, but I didn't see any water anyway.
It was still a blustery day when we went up to the car in the parking lot. Our car was covered with tiny white dots, really only obvious on the dark tinted windows and and the little bit of black trim, although it could be seen in the reflection of the white paint. In looking around they had some sort of improvement project going in the lot about 50 yards away. Paint overspray! Our car is old, and I'd dealt with this and worse (tree sap) before, so I was annoyed but not angry. I can understand if the guy across the aisle from me felt differently about his jet black Ferrari.
Maybe Ferrari guy was there for a wedding, which there seemed to be a constant stream of. In addition that weekend there was a Citadel reunion and lots of proms.
We finished up visits to Costco, West Marine, Lowes and the grocery. After lugging all that crap back to the boat down the length of the megadock I drove the car back to Costco to get one more fire extinguisher for about a third of what West charges. I saw they also have 3 gallons of the multi weight Rotella for $30, when one gallon is $25 at West Marine. West is convenient but you sure pay for it.
I parked the car at the airport and took an Uber back to the marina, almost ready for our departure in the morning for points north. We had a quiet evening with just some snacks. We weren't really hungry but tired from our laps up and down the megadock.
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