(written yesterday)
Yay – we’re on the water again, and it
feels great! We had a smooth departure at 11:00 a.m. today, and motored the
Intracoastal Waterway for 4 hours without incident, our only company being huge
pelicans hanging out on the pylons of the bridges we passed under.
We arrived by about 3:00 p.m. to a little
anchorage at Cocoa – a tiny perfect town resembling Niagara-on-the-Lake, and
Jeff discovered a hardware store that’s been run by the same family for 150
years! He spent an hour lost in its warren-like many rooms, while I explored a
wonderful near-by art gallery and talked at length to the watercolour artist
who owns it. We bought one of her small paintings for the boat.
A steak stir-fry from last night’s
leftovers went down well with a little bottle of Zinfandel, and we’re now revelling
in the peacefulness of swinging at anchor here on the Indian River. Tomorrow
we’ll head toward Vero Beach – though we’ll probably stop somewhere half-way.
The nice thing about the ICW is that there are anchorages everywhere along the
way – no problem stopping whenever you get the urge.
Apologies to those of you to whom we
accidentally sent an SOS message yesterday with our InReach – Jeff was testing
it and must have inadvertently released the signal. Sorry to scare you – we’re
more than fine!
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