After leaving our anchorage yesterday (just 4 or so north of Vero), we headed into Vero Beach Municipal Marina to fuel up before heading to Miami. Since the day was beautiful and the place looked pretty good, we decided to take a mooring for the night (at a whopping $10.66 +tx). It is expected that boats will be rafted here, but we were assigned a free mooring. We took the free bus right from the marina to the shopping center a couple of miles away. After walking around a couple of hours (and sweating our butts off!) we headed back to the bus. When we realized the bus would also take us to beach, we stayed on and headed to the ocean. It was awesome and we could've hung out there all day. However, by the time we got there it was already after 1500. We checked out the waterfront and stopped in Mulligans for a drink overlooking the ocean. It is just beautiful here! (Be sure to see our comical pictures from beach!)
We arrived back at the boat just in time to see a sailboat heading over to raft up to us on the mooring. We hurred back to help them and everything went smoothly. The couple from Seattle on Spirit, Lane and Marilyn took a tour of our boat and then invited us over to their boat where we were offered a glass of wine. A couple hours later (cruiser's midnight to be exact, we headed back to our boat). We hadn't realized that it was so late and we hadn't even had dinner (except for an assortment of delicious nuts). Michele went to bed anyway, because she didn't really mind skipping a meal after eating so much over the holidays. Steve opened a can of chili before retiring.
This morning, we took our time securing the boat and shoving off. We plan to head out at Fort Pierce Inlet to sail overnight to Miami. So hopefully we will be in Miami by tomorrow afternoon. We will update our position if we get a connection. We should be close enough to shore because we don't want to run into the gulf stream which is only 17 miles offshore. That would make heading south just a little more difficult in the northern gulf stream current!
Pictures at: http://www1.snapfish.com/photolibrary/t_=102133856
email Michele if you need permission to view photos mpapile@papile.net .
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