28 09.246 N
80 36.521 W
Easy morning. Cavara was having generator problems and had arranged for a mechanic, and planned to stay two nights. We were planning to leave mid morning and go 11 miles north to Vero Beach and wait for them on a mooring ball. The mechanic came first thing in the AM and "gave" them some trouble shooting advice but not much more, so we both decided to leave.
We were a bit low on fuel but I wanted to delay filling up till we got to Ocean Petroleum in Brunswick Georgia because they had the "best price on the East Coast". So we bought a 100 gallons to tide us over. It was after 11 AM before we got underway, heading north on the ICW.
It was very pleasant, but a "bit tame" after the Bahamas. (Bit like driving on an Interstate highway compared to a dirt road.) But on the other hand we could readily use the phones and access the internet. And the difference in private and public wealth became terribly obvious. Cavara took on 600 gallons and so ended up an hour behind us. We had previously picked out an anchorage in the Banana River.
We had the anchor down by about 6 PM and as expected Cavara arrived an hour later. We invited Barb and Don over for dinner and dropped the dinghy in the water to provide "door to door" service. It had been a warm and calm day, and the evening was quite calm. In the morning we woke to the sounds of rowing pairs and eights practicing on the calm river.
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| I suspect this house is worth more than all the houses in the Bahamas added up. |
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| Rowing practice on the Banana River |
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