Thursday November 13: Vero Beach

We pulled anchor and moved on from Serenity Island this morning. The winds had died to almost zero last night so it was a very quiet night - no waves slapping on the boat.

Only one sailboat had joined us last night - kind of surprised us as this is one of the nicest places to anchor for a 50 mile radius.

Ok by us though.

We have learned a thing or two though about anchoring near these islands. First, never go near an island that appears to be occupied by pirates.

And second, watch out for the sand bars that seem to be guarding at least one end of these islands. Pretty easy to see when the sun is out and shining brightly!


All of these islands (called spoil islands) were formed when the intercoastal waterway was dug in the 1950's.

The larger ones have quite a bit of growth on them - some of the smaller are nothing than a bump off to the side of the waterway.

I saw a lot of this from the flybridge again today :-) We have seem more dolphins that ever before along this route. Not sure if it's the time of year or what.

Usually they like the wave on at the bow of the boat but occasionally they like to play in the side wave - which I like because then I can see them.


There was even some time for catching today - a nice Spanish mackeral! I tried to take credit for the catch - I mean after all, who drove the boat directly over the fish, right?

I didn't get away with it but at least I tried :-)

The mega mansions began to appear as we neared the more populated area north of Vero Beach.

We've never stopped here before - just bad timing I guess. Everyone says we're really missing a nice stop. So now we'll find out as we'll stay for a week!

More on Vero Beach later ...