This might not seem like a big deal, but the tide was beginning to flow out and promised to carry us out to sea or to the boat grinding boulders that lined the inlet. On one sunny day, a handfull of us went for a ride in his new boat, which promptly ran out of gas."Gee, I put gas in last weekend". When we were teens, Bill had the money to have his own boat, but none of the experience needed to run it well. He is just one of my Salt Run memories.Īnother memory tickled out by the chilly, salty air was Bill N. He grew up catching and getting excited over brown trout whose size would qualify them for bait down here, so he really enjoyed the power and size of saltwater fishes. We also loved fishing together and this pier was convenient, even if not the very best place to fish. Pa was my "yankee" granddad (my mom's from Pennsylvania) and we loved each other dearly. It has been "prettied" up for out of towners, but it is essentially as it was when my grandfather and I used to fish it. The pier with the fisherfolk has been there for a very long time. Augustine lighthouse is behind me, as is one more body of salt water, and then the town of St. I took this photo while home for Christmas so this is not one of those "here's what it used to look like" essays of mine. The photo is looking east towards the back, or west shore of Anastasia. Anastasia is about 14 miles long and parallels the coast from the St. Salt Run is the lagoon located behind Anastasia Island over in St.
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