Our Adventures with Seaquel

November 25-26, 2019 Mile marker 918 to Mile Marker 966 ish We are getting spoiled with great cruising conditions. There was no wind.... until we went to get fuel in the Ft. Pierce City Marina. Tight quarters and the Captain did great turning us around for a starboard tie. After fueling up we continued South of the bridges to our anchorage at Harbor Isle, by some condos. We were tired and crashed early.  There were beautiful homes for part of this trip. After downsizing, it’s hard for me to imagine needing or wanting so much space. We played Keith and Deb’s game - home or resort. So many looked like resorts. Random stop sign! One more gorgeous sunset. I can’t get enough of watching the light - light on the water, sunrise light and I think best of all sunset light.

November 23 - 24, 2019 Titusville to Melbourne Mile Marker 878 to Mile Marker 918 Another gorgeous day, sunshine, flat water and no wind. What more could we ask for? Well we did ask for a bridge opening at the Nassau Causeway Bridge and the bridge tender replied, you’ve got 4 extra feet at the center Captain and so Eddie lowered the antennas and under we slipped. It feels closer than it is, but it is still close! We anchored just off the ICW at the Melbourne Beach Pier. We were treated to a spectacular sunset. #nofilters On Sunday we dinghyed into the pier, locked up our dinghy and walked to the ocean side beach.  It was a gorgeous day, we picnicked, sat on the beach, read our books, and even went for a swim. Of course the locals were saying how cold the water was but to us it felt like Fenwick in July! On our stroll back to the dinghy we stopped at the Melbourne Beach Market. What a great spot - merchandised really well, with gourmet Greek, Italia...

November 22 The Kennedy Space Center deserves a post of its own. We were up and out early, dinghyed into the Titusville Marina and in an Uber by a few minutes after 9. It was a gorgeous day and my husband was so excited to visit the Kennedy Space Center.  When you first enter there is a display they call “The Rocket Garden” it has some of the actual rockets, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Saturn V.  Eddie got all choked up and proud seeing the rockets that he saw, as a kid, watching their launches on TV. The first stop there is a bus tour of the complex where you see launch pads, the ginormous buildings where the rockets are built and private industry project sites. It was very cool.  The SpaceX (owned by Elon Musk)  building, super long but not so tall. Before SpaceX, the USA builds rockets standing up and then moves them by these very cool rocket movers to the launch pad. SpaceX builds their rockets laying down, then moves them to the L...

November 21 Mile Marker  846 - 878 We were up and on the move pretty early today. Both of us are happy that the weather is finally warming up and we cruised on the bridge in shorts and t-shirts. We had an easy, meandering cruise except for a 15 minute holding for a bascule bridge with current pushing us around.  This dock must have been damaged in the recent hurricanes. The birds don’t care!  ComingThrough Haulover Canal.   So hard to get the perfect shot of a pelican flying in front of the boat. I must have taken 10 pics trying. Then as soon as I put the camera down they fly across the bow! I swear they know! I’ll settle for the pics of the resting pelicans for now.  Sunset in Titusville. 

November 19 - 20 Mile marker 778 - 846 We had a relaxing morning with a beautiful sunrise in St. Augustine while we waited for the 9am opening of the Bridge of Lions.  A little blurry but still cool, white pelican party on our starboard side.  Matanzas Inlet was reported to have lots of shoaling. However, we never saw less than 17’ and there was lots of dredging equipment along the way.  I guess the Captain is getting more comfortable with me at the helm. He even snoozed today! So much wildlife today in the marshes - dolphins, pelicans, herons, egrets. However, the area is getting more built up as we get further south and the marshes and homes are turning into high rises. 😢 The weird city of Daytona. We arrived at our selected anchorage on the south side of the twin bridges and I got totally creeped out - derelict boats, a sunken boat, what looked like abandoned boats tied together and an active sailboat that looked haunted...