Wednesday January 25: Anchored off of Serenity Island

The fair weather gods must be smiling on the east coast of Florida. It was another wonderful day yesterday and again today. We've traveled about 225 miles since leaving Jacksonville on Saturday with all of the travel in at least a mixture of sun and clouds. Only ??? more to Marathon!

Given the opportunity, we'll always go out for breakfast - so yesterday morning - off we went. The security guard at the dock in Daytona pointed us to the Daytona Diner located about a mile down the street. Very nice place to ride with almost no traffic early on a Tuesday morning. Time to untie and go. Mmmmm.... sometimes it's harder to get the lines off than it is to get them on! Either one generally requires the use of the boat hook.

I asked Steve if there were any Rollo's in the freezer (my usual mid-morning pick me up) but alas there were none. But ever the inventor, Steve brought up celery with peanut butter and chocolate syrup on it! Edible but perhaps not the replacement for the Rollo :-)

Many fishing camps were located along the stretch of waterway yesterday. People having fun doing what they love - although I have to say I just don't get fishing, unless of course I'm catching something. So maybe if they called it catching instead of fishing I could get into it! One problem with these nice bright sunny days is trying to see the buoys if we are headed directly into the sun. Makes for cautious travel sometimes.

Last night we stayed in Titusville (near the Kennedy Space Center) and just picked up a mooring ball instead of going into the marina. By morning, the water was so calm it was crazy - and it stayed that way for the first couple of hours of travel today.

In for the night! Tonight we are anchored off of Serenity Island - and it for now is living up to it's name. My guess is that on weekends it's probably crazy with locals but for now all we see are dolphins and an osprey sitting in it's nest high in a tree on the island. With no generator, Steve isn't able to use the stove/oven to cook so out came his new crock pot! This is the 3rd time he's used it. It just sits nicely in the sink (so it won't get rocked off of the counter by passing boat wakes) and cooks away - powered by the inverter as we travel along. By the time we arrive at our destination for the evening, dinner is already cooked. What a great Christmas gift from Matt and Wendy :-)