Thankfully the night before the wind did finally dropped off
as we did, it seemed that our new bed time was somewhere between 8.30-9pm as we
were so tired and the early mornings were a challenge! Not sure we had slept
past 6.30am for weeks which is good if you want to be awake to see the sunrise.
So engine on and back into the ICW channel, this part of the
passage is along a wide river where we are stuck in the middle with not much to
see, the shore is quite built up but so far a way that you don’t see much. As the river narrows lots of Condo
(apartments to us Brits) appear, these often have docks which are mainly
occupied with small to medium sized fishing/sports power boats. Being the day after Thanksgiving early on
there are very few boats, we assume people are sleeping off the previous days
celebrations but the number of boats started to increase. One of these boats was “Proud Mary”, Mary and
Barry we met at New
Smyrna Beach
The day again was made much more enjoyable by the dolphins
and some even joined us for a while, one particularly one was huge and
obviously enjoyed getting close to the boats as his fin had been damaged – poor
thing but still looked like he was having a lovely time.
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| Poor stumpy dolphin but didn't stop him swimming along with us |
As we approached Vero
beach it was still early but bigger/quicker boats than
us are starting to build up behind us and we are lucky to call in just before
them and get ourselves a buoy.
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