Vero Beach - Canadian hospitality

Vero Beach has a good sailing community, lots of the people that you meet heading south on the ICW mention Vero beach and are planning extend stay.  So what is so great about Vero Beach? The main draw seems to be the easy access to the facilities in town as there is a free bus that runs from the marina, into the town and there you can get various connections to delights such as Wal-Mart, West Marine (the chandlery), DIY stores, etc.  So we joined the cruising community on the morning bus and headed out, can’t say this was very exciting.

At Vero Beach you are not able to anchor but have to use a buoy and many of these take multiple boats and we were lucky to have lovely neighbours of Kathy and Darius who are a Canadian couple who are headed to the Bahamas.  That evening they kindly invited us onboard for drinks along with some Canadian friends.  As they were all experienced with the ICW and the Bahamas trip it was nice to here there various stories and recommendations.

Kathy and Darius

Unfortunately the next day brought torrential rain, we had a morning run out to the beach which as really lovely and had hoped to return in the afternoon but the rain prevent this but we took advantage on the marina internet but it was a shame that we did not get to do more as our stay was only short.