Daily stuff

Let me tell you what happened to us in Lake Worth.  Well you know we anchored there for the night. Same spot we anchored in on our way south.  About 2:00 in the morning we woke up and the boat was listing heavily to starboard, 18 degrees to be exact.  We did not panic we sat in the cockpit for a while and decided there was nothing we could do so we went back to bed. Braced our feet across the v berth so we wouldn't roll sideways and went back to sleep waiting for the tide to come up. As you can imagine we did not sleep much.  But we got up early pulled anchor and proceeded along.  There is always something.  It was a beautiful day and we had 8 bridge to go through we headed to Peck Lake.  Wind were high when we arrived we did not even deploy the dinghy.  We were both tired from the last 3 day so we just sat on the boat and read.  Next stop was Vero Beach, we stopped there before too, needed provisions.  But before we got there we turned left at the wrong bridge ran aground, storm coming with high winds,  someone in a dinghy stopped and try to help after we got off the grounding.  Then we went to the next bridge and turned there and moored up in the marina.  Stayed a couple of days, spent an afternoon at the beach,  got ate up buy no see ums, nasty little bugs you can't see coming and the are stealthy to they attack in the middle of the night.  My legs looked like I had pox. 

On our way to Titusville we had to come up the Indian River near NASA we encountered small Islands along here that we named Flamingo Flats,  pink flamingos everywhere, Pelican Perch.  Also we saw at least 14 Manatee on our way through too.  Some were right next to the boat playing.  That was most excellent to see them.  Onto to Titusville Municipal Marina for night just to get a break from the winds.  We normally would have grabbed a mooring ball but with NNW winds 15 to 20 you do not want to be in the mooring field.  Staying at the marina was a treat we had electricity for first time in 8 weeks, we have a small inverter to charge our cell phones and computer on the boat.  It is amazing what you can adapt to when needed.   So we got out the cofee maker, toaster and even the microwave worked. Joe needed internet to work too.  Winds were still strong the next day and storms were expected we pulled into New Smyrna Municipal Marina early the next day and again we have electricity two days in a row. Woop! woop!  Good thing to as it was 92 degrees and we needed a fan to keep cool.  Went out for Pizza, Panheads,  yummo! Next day we are waffling back and forth wether to leave or stay, storms again.  We check the radar 20 times and we decide to leave.  we waited until one storm cell passes we cast off and get ahead of the weather.  We got rained on once it cleared up and was a nice travel day.  Anchored up in Daytona Then to Fourt Matanzas Inlet.  We saw a bobcat on the beach when we arrived,  I took photos.  Next day we toured Fort Matanzas something we did not do on our way south.  It was pretty cool.  Now we just left St. Augustine and we are anchoring out tonight.  Saw a pod of dolphins near one of the bridges they had a brand new baby wit them it was sticking it's whole head above the water, so cute.  Dolphins have been plentiful on our travels. Tides were against us this morning so progress was slow.  We pulled over and anchored up for 2 hours to wait it out had lunch now we are under way.  Our next major stop will be Cumberland Island it is on the Florid Georgia border.  Meeting up with Mike Pitzer and Tom Baker on Diva.  We hope to jump outside and sail up to South Carolina and buddy up with them.  I will let you know how that works out. TTFN

Bobcat at Fort Matanzas Beach