Here's Dan's view of the Bridge of Lions as we left St. Augustine.

We made it to Halifax Harbor in Daytona a little after 4 pm (Sunday) and Dan immediately began to dis-assemble the dinghy engine.  He had tried to start it after I had spent Saturday afternoon scrubbing it down and wasn't able to pull the cord at all.  It took a lot of elbow grease and he put in new spark plugs.  Lo and behold it started!  He's not sure what made the difference...

The ginormous buildings out at Cape Canaveral were in view for most of our trip.

Monday morning we fueled up and headed out, hoping to make Titusville where they have added a mooring field since our last visit.   We arrived right at 5 pm and took a mooring ball.  Dory was anxious for a trip to shore, so we headed right in.  She managed to hold it all day, but made sure she emptied well while we were ashore!  

Dan captured his "girls" sitting on the rail when we returned to Brunelle.

 Dan discovered this iPad bracket that makes it possible for us to have our Garmin Blue Charts app open on the iPad with all the Active Captain information about shoaling and anchoring spots as well as reviews of marinas available right next to the chart plotter.  It does drain the battery, but we have a 12 volt plug available nearby.

Luckily for Dory our forward most panel on the enclosure is usually open and she can still  maintain her favorite post - - - watching for channel markers that just might attack us.


Tuesday morning brought a rain shower, but it cleared enough for us to take Dory ashore to have a run in the dog park that is right next to the Titusville Municipal Marina.  She chased her frisbee relentlessly and enjoyed racing around with the only other dog who was visiting the park.

We were back aboard and ready to head for Vero Beach by 9 am.  Radar had shown a line of rain showers that threatened, but it looked like most of it would miss us.

As we passed under the new 65' bridge just south of the Titusville Marina, the sky didn't look very friendly...

We made it to Vero Beach without getting more than a few drops of rain on us in spite of the ominous look of the skies on and off throughout the day.  The office at Vero closes at five, but they gave us our mooring assignment and told us to settle up in the mooring.  Most of the moorings have two boats on them and we rafted with a boat from Annapolis!    

Also known as Velcro Beach because so many people "stick it out" here, we'll stick for another day.  We're off to take the shuttle across the bridge to town for an adventure. ~~~_/)~~~M&D