3/30- 4/11 Up the Indian River and Mosquito Lagoon to St Augustine

March 30
We left Vero Beach and travelled up the Indian River to Melbourne, anchored at Palm Isle.

March 31
Continued up the Indian River and stopped in Cocoa Beach to have lunch with Holly and Jack.  Holly and Bob used to work together in the lab. They spend the winter on Merritt Island. We continued on to Titusville. It was a clear day and you could see the Cape Canaveral Space Center and an orange rocket being readied for launch. Unfortunately we did not have the perfect timing to see the launch. Had a great sail with the jib!

April 1
Another jib day! Moved onto Mosquito Lagoon. We anchored at the prettiest anchorage ( we think) on the ICW- Rockhouse Creek at Ponce Inlet.  Beautiful water at the inlets with lots of dolphins! We dinghied over to "disappearing Island" and walked on the sandbars and dunes. This is a popular place!  People camp out here on the weekends and bring their supplies by boat- tents, chairs, games, even tiki huts!

Carol walking the sandbar.  Ponce lighthouse in the background.

April 2-3
Checked into the New Smyrna Beach Marina. We were able to walk to the historic Canal Street.  And our timing was great- went to the farmers market, then the beer pub crawl. Next day we dug out our bikes and rode over to the beach.  It was a drive-on beach, packed with cars.

New Smyrna Beach

Entrance for cars

 We rode our bikes 15 miles that day, mostly by the water's edge! Very firm sand.

April 4
A short day to Daytona.  So we decided to go ashore.  It was very disappointing, rather rundown and lots of shady characters.

April 5-6
Spent the night at Marineland Marina. We walked on the natural rocky beach. Coming off the dock the next morning Bob noticed we had no propulsion! Quickly dropped the anchor! Got our first tow from TowBoat US back to the dock. The throttle cable had snapped!  We were lucky it happened where it did! Bob took a taxi to town, came back with a new one, and installed it!

April 6-11
Ahhh, back to St Augustine!  The mooring field is in the downtown historic district.

Mooring field with Bridge of Lions in background

Waterfront view from our boat

The Fort- canon firing

 We can walk everywhere!  Went toured the San Sebastian Winery, took the informative trolley ride, walked the fort, and ate a lot!

Bob's burger at Harrys Grill

Saw a great 9 member band at The Vault, in The Treasury Building.

Toured El Galeon- a replica of a 1700's Spanish merchant ship

We did our annual teak maintenance with a topcoat.
Our friends from Rock Hall, David and Cherie came in.  We will buddy boat north with them.
Also ran into friends from our homeport and had a delicious lasagna dinner aboard Blue Heaven.

Where can you to to dinner barefoot? Here we are with Al and Arlene on Blue Heaven, David and Cherie on Blue Sky and Ron and Maryann on Cavu.