As promised we did get off the dock in Melbourne on Christmas day. It was a good present to ourselves as we made it down to one of our favorite anchorages just north of Vero
and had a nice, quiet Christmas dinner of ahi and shrimp.
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| Christmas dinner |
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| Florida sunset!! |
Next stop was Stuart for a few days with the Chief and Mom and also we got to see Dane & Ellen's new digs in town. Dane was wrapping up the last of a huge home improvement project with their friend Melissa and invited us over for a drink and to see the work. Sorry to say the pictures didn't come out but it was good to see Dane again. The home looks great! We also got to spend some time with some of our friends….Vinny on s/v Flight Plan is getting his boat ready for a Bahamas crossing and Jim & Irene (s/v Escapaid) are putting the finishing touches on their planned trip to the west coast of Florida for the winter.
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| Yep, we had some laughs |
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| Dane's dock is in the center right on the ICW |
After our visit we continued to head south and spent a night in Lake Worth. We had a little of everything during our 18 hour visit as you can see. We have seen our share of strange weather since continuing south but one thing we know……..we ARE MOVING!
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| Our evening shower |
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| and our morning sun… |
Since the wind is howling we elected to continue down to Ft Lauderdale before jumping outside to Miami. We will make our crossing to the Bahamas when the crossing window is right but in the meantime we will wrap up provisioning and boat work from somewhere in the Miami/Biscayne area. Today the watermaker was turned on so now we are independent from shore! No more lugging jugs to the dock or going to a marina just for water. Now we have our own RO (reverse osmosis) water factory!! The Cape Horn is some of the best money we have spent!
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| Our anchorage in Ft Lauderdale |
Current temps in Syracuse - 5 degrees and that's a warm up for today. Keep heading for warm weather and have a great winter in better weather.
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