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Melbourne to Fort Pierce

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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.

Titusville to Melbourne

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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...

Kennedy Space Center

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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...