Day 199: Friday, March 22, 2013
Port to Port: Cocoa to Titusville, Florida
Underway: 8:49 am Motor Off: 12:24 pm Miles Traveled: 19 Stayed At: Mooring
First Things First: First time seeing someone standing in the shallows scooping up scallops.
Mile 898 to Mile 879: After a quiet and peaceful night at anchor in Cocoa, we headed toward Titusville about 20 miles away. What a difference a day makes – the seas were calm, the air was warm and a hazy sunshine kept us toasty all morning. A nice breeze later in the morning gave us a 1 mph boost – we were cruising at a steady 6 mph for the last couple hours. Short days are nice.
Even though the day was short, we were busy being entertained all morning by chance encounters – first several dolphin greeted us just as we were leaving (and all along the way), pelicans were dive-bombing to catch their breakfast, an unmarked grey hard bottom inflatable with twin 250 hp outboards (probably homeland security) made a couple high speed passes up and down the channel, a couple biplanes flew overhead, several jet fighters gave us our own personal airshow (they were practicing for an airshow this weekend), and 5 parachutes appeared in the sky off towards Titusville. We also passed by NASA’s Main Assembly Building – it looks huge and we were miles away. All before noon. How was your morning? And to top off the day, before as we were leaving the marina to go back to the boat, dolphin cruised through the marina and a couple of manatee surfaced and rolled (really, we saw them). Talk about chance encounters.
I don’t have any proof of any of this (except the NASA building) – dolphin are nearly impossible to get to standstill, I don’t think its smart to take a picture of homeland security and have you ever tried to take a picture on a boat bobbing in the water, with the zoom all the way out trying to catch something going 300+ mph. Try it some time.
We easily picked up a mooring at the Titusville Municipal Marina – lots of empty balls. And lots of slips available to it looks like. It is interesting how some marinas are really popular and others seem to struggle to stay full. We ate lunch of leftover pizza, took showers, finished our laundry and worked on the computer until it was time to walk to get the car.
