Awakened by a sparkling sun rise I rush to get this perfect new dawning of a day memorized in a photograph. It is calm and the waters are still as can possibly be announcing a perfect new day.
Prepping our morning meals and getting the boat ready to depart for a run as far as it will take us, preferably all the way to Jupiter. Since it is low tide early in the am we linger a bit and depart our dock just a bit past 9 am.
As we pass by Cocoa Beach and Melbourne riding along the ICW in the Indian River our trip is going smoothly and more swiftly than expected. May it continue as such all the way to our destination hopefully being Jupiter?
I must say I am happy that we are going inland rather than on the ocean especially when looking at our wind indicator showing wind blowing at some 16 KN and more.
Just when we entered Ft Pierce the clouds gathered and it started raining diminishing our visibility quite a bit. While Joe is desperately looking for a marina in the vicinity that has a floating dock available for the night I am at the helm running the boat. Well, it is so that all the marinas are full for the night and we need to move on to Stuart where we might be luckier in finding the appropriate marina for the night. That being so it will shorten our day tomorrow and we will reach our home destination.
As we slowly pass through the rain and the Indian River Waterway we not only have reached Stuart and left the rain behind Joe is lucky enough and finds us a marina that has room for us and even has floating docks which we favor. It makes it so much easier to get on and off the boat that way.
As we slowly enter the channel going towards our designated marine we pass by two well known marinas, The Sailfish Marina and the Pirates Cove Marina. Our choice is the Pirates Marina for it also has a restaurant that we remember from an earlier trip some 13 or 14 years ago. Some fond memories for a family boat trip to Captiva across Lake Okeechobee with my mother, Jessica and Martina on board. Happy with our dock and other amenities we embark on our usual docking duties..
It is time to wash down the boat and make her happy and sparkly again. The sun has emerged from behind the clouds and it is a perfect end of the day.
It is our last night on the way before we return home and bring our Contessa to her home base. Happy boating tomorrow!