The trip from St. Augustine through Daytona Beach and on to Cocoa Village was nervewracking because of depths. There was always lots of water around us just not under us. We saw many, many manatee signs and we decided the signs lied because we hadn't seen a manatee, until our last day in Cocoa Village. As we were getting ready to leave, a manatee popped his head up in the vacant slip next to us. So now we've seen one. We began to think the manatees were playing with us as we took the Halifax river , the cut to the Indian river and then the Indian river because depths would be 12 and then 4 and then back to 12! It was a couple of stressful days spending all our time looking at the depth sounder. Others in Cocoa Village were saying the same thing, so it wasn't just us.
We did three days in Cocoa Village FL. This was a very friendly marina and they even had a super bowl party on Sunday night in their clubhouse, which is very lavish. Good game and it was interesting to enjoy it with people you don't know.
Took a day to go see the Kennedy space center, which was real interesting. We even got to go into a flight simulator which simulates a space shuttle take off. Then we watched a 3D movie about life on the space station.
How would you like to drive this around the moon!
We also spent one day just cleaning the boat. Over a thousand miles so far and it needed it. The town is really fun and they had a park with a great frisbee area for Molly. And it gave Jon a chance to get over a flu bug or something. Then we provisioned and headed out to Vero Beach FL (Start of the Tropics) we are told. It is illegal to anchor in Vero Beach so we stayed on a mooring ball provided by the municipal marina.
This is the most boats we've seen in one place since we started!
We are beginning to see a lot more traffic, lots of sailboats headed south now that the depths are reasonable. We've seen depths of 10-15 ft pretty consistently for the last 2 days. We also noticed this morning that the water is changing color to turquoise from the usual mud brown. The dolphins are still with us, popping up in front of the boat periodically to let us know. Weather is overcast, warm and humid. Next couple of days we will be crossing the state of Florida via lake Okeechobee. Watch for alligators! We head down the St. Lucie river to the Okeechobee Canal/ditch from Stuart FL to Lake Okeechoobee (2 locks), across the lake and down the Caloosahatchee river to Ft. Myers for our anniversary.. yeah i remembered it. Then we will be heading north towards Tampa Bay, Tarpon Springs and meander to Mobile Bay.
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