Vero Beach

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We all head out by 8:00AM. We had a group of 5 dolphins swim with us for quite a while, until some power boats caught up to us and flew by. 

Our Escort

We get to Vero by 1:30. Our friends on “Manannan” arrive just before us and go to the fuel dock. When I call on the radio the folks at the Vero Beach Marina can’t distinguish “Manannan” vs “Manana” and think we are the same boat. I give up and motor to our Vermont friends, “Infinity” (Bob & Deb Gurwicz) who are on a mooring by themselves and raft up with them. When it gets busy they allow up to 3 boats on a mooring. Mark and Karen raft up on the other side of “Infinity”.

When I finally establish on the radio that we are another boat they assign us to another mooring. They will not put three on a mooring until all the other moorings first have two. So we move to Mooring #1 with “Sales Call”, a Catalina 31 from Georgia. Not a long trip for them. We get a shout out from “Purrfect” a Canadian Catamaran couple that we met at the Dismal Swamp. We are also near our friends Robert and Karen from Nova Scotia who we met for years ago and traveled with in the Bahamas. Their boat has been stuck in Florida for the last to Covid years. After the Bahamas this year they will be taking it home to Nova Scotia.

Late in the afternoon we walked to the beach with Mark and Karen and have dinner at “Mulligans”, then to Kilwins for ice cream. On our walk back to the boat down our favorite residential neighborhood where the street is covered with large Live Oaks, oddly named “Date Palm Rd”, we find an unusual absence of Xmas lights. In past years many of the Oaks and houses had very distinctive lighting. But very little this year. I guess there has been some home owner turnover. Back at the boat I have a long conversation with the owner of “Sails Call”, while Linda watches a TV Show. They are heading back to Georgia for Xmas tomorrow, but will spend winter at Vero and head home by boat early in March.