St Lucie River

After leaving Daytona beach, we made it to Cocoa Beach, anchored, what a wonderful sound that new baby makes, and no straining of my back pulling that f...king 45 lb CQR from the bottom of the mud, and over the bow roller, do you know how tought that is, when the shakle binds at the roller. I think that I have new muscles and hurts...lucky that I am only 59 :)

The day after we went to Vero Beach Mun Marina, took a mooring ball($13.90 per night), nice spot. There is a yacht club there, much like RNSYS, one cheap spot and one expensive spot, right next to each other...talk about class separation, I would much rather be in the "blue collar" league.

21 Nov travelled to St. Lucie River, where we will begin our crossing to the other side(Gulf side). Anchored in Manatee pocket, will be here 2 days, then  moving on, the first set of 3 pics are at Cocoa Beach, where we tried the new windlass, the next set is of Vero Beach, pic of Esperanza in the background, power cat "for sale", have to check that out, :). The last series  are from Manatee Pocket, lots of rich homes and lots and lots of big boats, as you can see.. Big sports fishing area, they cross over to the Bahamas all the time.
Well enjoy, more updates later.Pic of "snubber" stops all that chain rattling at night, the strain is taken up by the snubber, so there is no strain on the windlass itself.

The pic of the blue boat is "Sheena II, he is originally from NFLD, now lives in Ont, him and his wife have been on that boat for 8 years, I think thats what he said. Every year he make the trip from Ont to Bahamas, and comes back, bundle of knowledge. He brought over 6-8 packs of frozen deer chops, maybe try them tonight on the BBQ.