Passage - Cocoa Village Marina to New Smyrna Beach City Marina
9:38 AM Underway
4:40 PM Docked port side to Slip 23
8.2 engine hours 51 miles

( Just found I had not posted this from last Thursday )We decided that we would run all the way to New Smyrna Beach, today. Looks like 3 days of bad weather starting this evening. Rather nice run past Cape Canaveral and once again seeing the giant NASA assembly building most of the trip.

Manatees - yea. I’ve caught a glimpse of a few, but never got a picture. Susan was always too late when I told her to look. While you are driving the boat you often see things that no one else sees: fish tail walking across the water, lots of dolphins, an occasional turtle and lots of birds. Susan and I saw lots of manatees today going through the Haulover Canal that connects Indian River to North Indian River. You are constantly warned to slow down in manatee areas, only to never see one. So, it was great to see several.

About 4PM, I saw clouds building to the north. We are only about 4 miles away from the marina when the temperature dropped and about half a mile away, the wind really picked up. I had some concerns when going under the Harris Saxon bridge, approaching New Smyrna. The wind gets funneled though a bridge at times and controlling the boat can be tricky. The wind was really howling as we went under the bridge. I called the marina, only a quarter mile past the bridge, and they were ready for us with an easy slip for Liquid Therapy. It was a straight in shot without having to turn into any fairways. We got tied up and the storm was mostly wind blowing the boat around in the slip with very little rain.

We ate on board and enjoyed cedar planked salmon. Yum! Then we collapsed from the long day.

Today’s picture is the mangrove island behind us at the New Smyrna Beach Marina that has loads of birds roosting at sunset.