Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Tidbits from the ICW

Hello everyone... we have landed in Fort Lauderdale, revisiting our stay at Cooley's landing from 2012. While we are here we will get a new Doyle sail pack, the AC recharged, worked done on the on our Generator, connect the wind generator, a lot of re-stacking, packing, knitting, and  other assorted 'honey do's"
We arrived at the Loggerhead Marina in Vero Beach on Wednesday 1/7 - had a wonderful visit with 2012 traveling friends Dale, Patty and Oliver. Patty and I went shopping and I got a tour of Vero Beach. There was a very blustery day not worth the hassles of tossing around while waiting for bridges so we stayed on one extra day. We anchored out several days on our trip and had one very expensive night at Palm Beach Marina... wow the boats there. 
Here are the Photos in random order... 
Enjoying Florida sunshine
T&L 
CHT
We had a brisk wind while traversing Mosquito Lagoon.. Unfurled
Jib and and a good 2 -3 hour sail.  Yes we were running the engine
but just on idle 

not bad for just a Jib

Sun set and a calm night on the anchor

It is amazing how flat and still this body of water can be

Solar powered personal water craft, the gentlemen
driving said she can do 5 knts


a Shell getter... not sure fisherman is correct..
water temp was 66 degrees 

dang if I know, how or what this was



we went through a total of 28 bascule bridges in 3 days
18 of them in one day.  The bridge operators can be quite
a hoot

yes they do dredge the shallow spots in the ICW



No comments:

Post a Comment