SUMMER BREEZE: July 9 - 10: Fort Pierce to Wassabo to Titusville

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July 9, Tuesday
Time to head north along the ICW!

We returned to Fort Pierce on Sunday evening and spent Monday preparing to leave, topping off the water tanks, grocery store and returning the rental car. We also had AJ Aleixo of Down Under Dive Service do another great bottom cleaning job to prepare Summer Breeze for the trip home. We then had a great last meal (red snapper) at Cobb's Landing Restaurant.

This morning, we attempted to leave the marina 9:30 AM but the outgoing tide gave us quite an impossible task quickly pinning us against the slip pilings on the oppose side of our finger pier. We were thankful that no boats were around us and we were able to easily tie up and wait 2 hours for slack tide. At 11:45 with a slacker tide but with a bit of wind, we were able to leave the marina. Bruce did a great job of backing out of our "spot" and maneuvering in the bit of current and wind. "The lessons never end."

We arrived at Wassabo, which is north of Vero Beach and about 20 miles south of Melbourne, at 2:45 and decided to hunker down there for the approaching afternoon thunderstorms. They have been fierce and we didn’t want to drive through them if we didn’t have to. We dropped our anchor into the ICW’s dark water, can’t see the chain or anchor anymore!

Storms and thunder on the horizon. The evening brought some light rains but we had watched the Sirius weather station to see where the storms were live and made a good decision on stopping early.

Miles: 22

Miles total: 1092
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July 10, Wednesday

We weighed anchor at 7:30 after a great sleep! It was a calm morning with dolphins and pelicans everywhere, and a lot of mud on the anchor chain! Made us happy to have that saltwater wash down to save on our precious fresh water! Bruce used up a ton of water to wash off the mud from the anchor chain.

It was a long, slow, hot day and we look forward to our AC after we stop traveling for the day again. (We like to pilot from the flybridge and we are always in the shade but it is warm!). We took a mooring ball at Titusville by 3:45. Rain storms were close by but seemed to miss us and the radar and weather stations showed them all around.

Think good thoughts for the rest of our trip north, please!