Day 9 – Lake Worth
Today’s leg began a few minutes after sunrise. There was plenty of light and no fog. We were the first boat awake and out of the anchorage so we tried to keep all noise to a minimum. The first four miles were scenic and silent, and quite restful. The remainder of our trip to Lake […]
Day 8 – Peck Lake
With little current and no tide to speak of, we were able to leave early and quietly from our slip at Vero Beach. The only drawbridge opening went smoothly and it was sunny. For the third straight day we were confounded by the wind forecast. Today’s forecast, both for the ocean and inshore along our […]
Day 7 – Vero Beach
So nice to have guests aboard! All four of us had coffee in the cockpit while watching the dolphin show. Today there were two mother/ baby pairs, and we had a great time watching them fish and play. The juveniles looked like kids wrestling good naturedly in a sandbox. They dove at and over each […]
Day 6 – Vero Beach
We woke today to sunshine, in contradiction to the prediction of rain the forecasts led us to expect. The marina was full of soft sounds: the resident large parrot outside the Captain’s lounge whistled and sang in a low mournful tone. Grackles, doves, and starlings made their usual racket and mess. The pelicans don’t seem […]
Day 5 – Vero Beach
It was gusty in Melbourne anchorage (20-28mph) until past midnight, then calmed. The anchor held fast, and we were able to get some good sleep. We got our start around 7:30 a.m. as did multiple groups of dolphins. They appeared to be playing, leaping and splashing right at each other. Tommy caught one pair head […]
Day 4 – Melbourne
After yesterday’s grounding, today’s trip to Melbourne seemed…not dull, but definitely calm. After a light fog lifted, we slipped our mooring ball and took off. The ICW on this leg consisted of wide, calm, shallow expanses of the Indian River with a deeper, but narrow dredged channel that we kept within. We passed by Cape Canaveral and could […]
Day 3 – Titusville
Rockhouse Creek, last night’s anchorage, was scenic, calm and relatively unpopulated. One of our few neighbors was a smartly turned-out Nordic Tug. The Captain, Mike, dinghied over to say hello and compare travel plans, as he and his wife Judy are also Bahama-bound. We ate a dinner of steak, corn, and broccoli in the cockpit. Around […]
Day 2 – Rockhouse Creek
Our second day started with coffee to take the chill off a 45 degree morning. We left Hammock Beach just before 8 a.m. and were immediately greeted by a pod of black dolphins playing in the channel. An osprey plummeted to the water and carried off what looked like a softball. As he swooped by […]
Day 1 – Palm Coast
Today’s weather was sunny and a little cool – fine conditions for a 9:00 a.m. start on our first day. Our marina friends came out to see us off which was both bittersweet and much appreciated. We had planned a short hop as this was C Ghost’s first big outing in some time. We were […]
Our Next Big Cruise!
Tomorrow we embark on our next big cruise. The plan is to continue down the ICW from Saint Augustine in short one-day trips until we reach Lake Worth inlet (just north of Palm Beach). From there our intent is to go out the inlet, sail down the Florida coast, and come back in at Ft. […]