Left the marina around 6:30 and headed out. The canal is narrow and the water not to deep but we followed our track and got out to the channel.

As I said yesterday in the blog we are in a waterway ( the Indian River to be exact -still) that is very wide but very shallow outside of the channel. As you are traversing the intra coastal and you look at your electronic chart at the helm you are following a magenta line which designates the center. However you need to constantly watch as the depths do deviate, sometimes a little and sometimes a lot. Although the chart shows the day marks, the person not at the helm is also watching through the binoculars scanning the water and pointing out where the next mark is. Both are full time jobs!

Reached our anchorage by Pine Island just north of Vero Beach at 2:00p.m. It was little shallow going in and we dropped the anchor in 5.9 ft. of water.

It was nice to sit on the back deck and relax. Tom fell asleep, I read some and then dozed. I was watching 3 guys - one driving a jet ski, one sitting behind him and one in the water trying to get up on a wake board. Each of the riders was having a difficult time getting up, in fact only one was able. When they were done they went to a sandbar and started arguing. Oh my gosh I can’t write the conversation, it was x-rated!! They went on and on for at least 45 min. We were in stitches about what they were arguing about. They covered everything form sports, school, caressing his genitals, you name it. Anyway they finally left and our entertainment was over.

We had a Caesar salad with the flank steak for dinner and finished up the ice cream with chocolate sauce for dessert. Sitting in the cockpit enjoying our last night at anchor. We’ve had a great trip, and seen some great places and done lots of fun things.

At the end of each trip we always say “It’s good to go and good to be home”.

We traveled 47.04 nm = 54.51 statute miles in 8 hrs. 8 min.