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Vero Beach is one of our favorite ports of call. We have now visited Vero several times. It is a very boat friendly place. The mooring field is very protected and they only cost about $18 a night. There is an hourly free bus service that will take you either to the shoping or to the beach side. For Thanksgiving the City supplies cooked turkey and ham to a visiting boaters party. The boaters provide the labor and the side dishes etc.
The celebrations are very popular so I was quite surprised when I called and the marina said they would squeeze us in. It is understood for this week that moored boats will "raft up" three wide. We arrived at about 3PM and pulled into the fuel dock for a pump-out and to take on water. While we were there we received our mooring assignment - #56 out of a field of 57. It seemed we were a bit big to raft to most of the (sailing) boats there, so we got the second last mooring and told to expect company over the next couple of days.
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| Rafted sailing boats |
Monday November 24, 2014
Good nights sleep - no anchor to think about. Launched the dink after breakfast and headed into town on the free bus after signing up for the Thanksgiving party. Beautiful sunny day, quite humid. There was enough sun for the solar panels to keep the batteries charged most of the day.
Dinner out at the River House, up the ICW under the highway bridge. They have a dinghy dock. On the way we popped in on another DeFever ("Salty Turtle") to say Hi. But the outboard would not re-start. So the captain took us over in his dink and picked us up after - at which time our dink decided to start!
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Caught the free bus over to Vero Beach (the part of town on the Atlantic) for breakfast and a stroll around town. Waiting for the bus, Deidre stood in a fire ant nest and was bitten a dozen times. Immediately went to a drug store and purchased some Benedryl tablets for her, and all seems well.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Lots of rain and a cool change last night. Rain and wind squalls coming and going all morning. In a break we rode the dink to the marina and took the bus to the mall. We just wandered around doing a bit of light shopping and enjoyed late lunch at Burger King.
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Cold night, beautiful clear, sunny morning. So much so that the panels cooked breakfast and are putting some amps in the batteries. Headed off to the party in the dink at about 12:30 PM. The venue was about a mile away up a deep creek. There must have been about 150 cruisers there. We fell in with a table and ate our fill.After lunch was over several people brought out musical instruments and organized a sing along. Back on Tide Hiker about 4 PM we recovered the dink and generally tidied up. Early morning tomorrow.
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| Dinghy parking |
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| The spread was pretty impressive |
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| My lunch |
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