Serenity Island again lived up to it's name and was just a nice as when we were here in the fall. Nice place to anchor. Peter and Cheryl ended up being able to catch up to us so we spent the night rafted together off of the island. It was an early rise as the plan was to go 40 miles or so to Titusville. Cheryl is becoming quite the captain as Peter takes on the anchor duty. Let's hear it for the guys!! It's nice to be traveling with them again :-)
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This is kind of a boring part of the ICW in that we are traveling on the Indian River - which isn't really a river. Just a big body of water that just kind of sits there (except near the one or two inlets that are rather small). Since we were near Cocoa about lunch time and the city provides a free dock for 3 hours, we decided to stop and check it out as we passed it by both times we have traveled the ICW. What a fun place! We found the greatest hardware store of all time with all kinds of fun stuff in it. I particularly like the giant wrenches - not that we need one but still it was fun to see them :-) Steve is on a ladder looking for just the right tool for spring clips much to the dismay of the gentleman holding the ladder. Even though the owner told Steve to just get the ladder and go up it. Oh well.
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There were ladders built in on many of the walls. They were on rails at the top and rollers on the bottoms - just like you might see in an old library. The handrails to the second floor were pipe and the catwalk to the next building was on the second floor also. This lead to another building with an upper and lower floor. Altogether I think Steve said there were 7 buildings - crazy place and they seemed to have anything you could possibly need!
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After a nice Thai lunch we were looking for some desert - ice cream of course. Do you think we found any nearby? Nice town - this is the 'old' Cocoa which is nicely redone. Many restaurants and stores. Again a small town that has really gone out of it's way to attract tourists. Steve tried blending into one the several murals but I think his hat gave him away :-)
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Of course it's still not all play and no work. The injector pump oil needed to be changed this morning before we left (every 50 hours of run time so about every week and a half or so). We have it down to a science now - job completed in 10 minutes start to finish and no spilled oil at all! This may not seem like much of an accomplishment unless you saw the first time we changed it - what a mess! Today was a manatee day as we literally saw dozens of them. I'm not sure why here but it was fun. Two came up right in front of the boat and dived down - good thing I was going slow and could just put the boat in neutral until they passed under us. Manatee are VERY slow moving and the greatest danger to them is being hit by boat propellers. Many areas along the ICW are slow zones just for the manatee. The marina here at New Smyrna Beach is right next to an island which is totally taken over by the birds. It may be an early morning as I'm thinking the birds will be up at dawn :-)
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