Day 196: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Port to Port: Vero Beach, Florida
Underway: 0:00 am Motor Off: 0:00 pm Miles Traveled: 0 Stayed At: Mooring
First Things First: First time having movie popcorn for breakfast.
Mile to Mile: I don’t know what it is about Vero Beach but it just hasn’t clicked with us. It’s a nice place but we haven’t fallen in love with it. We are heading to Melbourne tomorrow and Titusville the next day. We hope to go to the Kennedy Space Museum although the price is steep – more than a day at DisneyWorld.
For some odd reason, we decided to go to a movie this morning – the movie Silver Lining started at 10:35 am – AM! We are definitely in Florida. We took the free bus to within 6 blocks of the theatre and wandered around a little waiting for the movie to start. There actually were a handful of other people in the theatre with us at this time of the morning even though the movie has been out for a long time. Good movie and great popcorn.
We lucked out and only had to wait 5 minutes for a bus to take us back to the marina. We decided to keep going to the beach and wander along the sand for a while. The waves crash only 20 feet from where you are on the beach – brings back memories from our last trip to California to visit Jessica. Cindy found a couple tiny shells to add to our memory box and we walked back to the boat to clean before we head out tomorrow.
I get tired of the brown eyebrow around the waterline – normally part of your bottom paint would show above the waterline and then your actual painted waterline would be above that. On Aurora, we are 2” below the top of our waterline on a good day and so the grunge shows up on the white hull. So I scrubbed it all the way around to make it white again – hopefully in this cleaner water it will last longer than a few days.
Minnesota has been getting hammered with snow, wind and rain lately. Last year at this time we had 70’s and the ice was on its way out. What a difference a year makes. Lets hope that when spring comes it comes soon. It was 80˚ here today. Maybe this will make everyone back in Minnesota feel a little better.
Glad to see you are progressing so well. We actually loved Vero Beach, and the free bus! Then again there is plenty to enjoy further north. Palm Coast has a great marina and is a nice stop. Good pizza too They used to have free loaner bikes! We had our bottom painted at Barber Marina and met your friends on Rumpshaker!
Glad to see you are moving north. As you head up we loved Palm Coast Marina, they used to have free loaner bikes and great pizza at the little village that is within walking distance.