5/2/15
Cocoa FL, ICW
Position: 28 20.957N, 080 43.161W
Posted by Bill
Yesterday we took the bus and got groceries and liquor, and as usual, it took most of the day. Then we jumped in the dinghy and hit happy hours at Mr Manatees and Riverview Cafe. It is good to get fresh shrimp again. We were surprised that they didn’t have that in the Bahamas. Here we all are rafted in Vero (photo courtesy of Sofia Jeanne):
We left at 7:15 this morning and stopped at Cocoa…long day! We traversed the Indian River and this part of it is wide, leaving us exposed to the NE winds that were not forecasted to be this strong…go figure! It was also a weekend on the Florida ICW, which you all know is a lovely experience…not! it wasn’t as bad as south Florida, but there were several Ass Captain awards being handed out as large power boats came by us at full speed. Everyone was tired and we have all been here before, so we didn’t even go to shore. Tomorrow we head up to Ponce Inlet and will make our way to Saint Augustine from there. Most of the next couple of weeks will be long day trips to re-trace our steps back north. If we experience something new I will elaborate and post more pictures, otherwise you can check out the blog entries from last year as we made our way south.
Here is the anchorage at Cocoa:
Keep an eye on the weather this week Bill, Weather service has just issued a possible tropical storm along the Atlantic from where your at all the way up the coast to Virginia through next week end. You could run into a lot of rain and high winds.
Thanks Rick! We are aware of it…you know I am a weather fanatic. We are going to hunker down in St Augustine FL for a few days while the threat passes. Looks like Wednesday is the worst of it. We have a slip reserved up river and will be very well protected. i greatly appreciate the heads up!!!!