Six Wines on the Water Past St. Augustine's Old Fort
Boarding is at Camachee Cove Marina, where parking is free and the boat leaves on time.
The first bottle comes out once the boat clears the marina. A crew member works down the deck, names the wine, and pours about two ounces into a cup you can hold in one hand. Five more follow across the next ninety minutes.
Departures run Wednesday through Sunday, the first boat at 3:00 PM and the last at 5:30 PM. Every seat is twenty-one and over.
Wine Tasting Cruise in St. AugustineNinety minutes on the bayfront with six guided pours, leaving from Camachee Cove Marina.www.viator.comThe Tasting Is Guided, the Bar Is Separate
Six samples are the spine of the trip. A crew member presents each one, and the pours run about two ounces, enough to taste and well short of a glass. Local bottles turn up in the rotation. The operator's booking instructions add that the cruise includes a small charcuterie cone. Past the samples, the boat runs a bar selling beer, wine, sparkling, sangria, canned cocktails, soft drinks and snacks, on cash or card. Outside alcohol stays ashore. Your own snacks and soft drinks are welcome aboard.
What Goes Past the Window
The boat works south along the bayfront and turns back. Castillo de San Marcos sits directly on the water, and its seaward wall reads as one long piece from a boat. The Great Cross at Mission Nombre de Dios stands north of the fort, and the Bridge of Lions closes the view to the south. None of these is a stop. The cruise passes them while the guide talks, and it returns to the dock it left from.
The Water Keeps Its Own Schedule
The operator calls dolphins a regular sighting on its own page. Birds are the looser category. The listing names the roseate spoonbill and frames the wildlife with the words lucky to see, which is the honest version of a wildlife promise. The route does not change for them. The boat runs the same line whether the water is busy or empty.
Two Boats, and the Number That Is Not Your Group
Sunday sailings run on the Osprey. The rest of the week the cruise is on the Great Blue Heron, which the operator describes as a custom power catamaran seating up to forty-nine, with a closed cabin, an open front deck and a long bar for service. The Osprey is a forty-five foot pontoon certified for thirty-seven passengers plus two crew, enclosed and shaded except at the bow, with windows that roll up or down. Both carry a restroom. Neither of those numbers is your group: one booking on this listing takes up to six travelers, and the rest of the seats belong to other parties. In winter the sailing runs through sunset, and the rest of the year it sits in the early evening.
Boarding is at Camachee Cove Marina, 107 Yacht Club Drive, north of the old town. Parking is free, and check-in closes fifteen minutes before departure; the safety briefing runs before the lines come off. Getting aboard means a walk down to a floating dock, a ramp, and two to four steps up and over a gap. Secured shoes matter here. Heels, flip flops and slides are turned away. Cancelling a full day ahead returns the whole fare, weather cancellations are refunded, and a sailing that does not reach its minimum count is moved or refunded. The gift shop by the dock is open when you step off, and the evening is still ahead of you.