JANUARY 2015

Dear friends and family,

January still finds us in sunny Florida waiting for a good weather window to cross to Bahamas! Hurry up and wait is our new motto, along with about 20 other boats in the harbor waiting with us. We've been here for a week now, and looks like if we are lucky tomorrow might be the day.

The good news is that it is warm and sunny and we are with our good friends from home, Bob and Diane Deans. We are sharing meals, weather reports, trips to the beach and way too many trips to Publix, the southern grocery store version of Shaws. We will certainly be well stocked for the next few months! The other cruisers waiting to cross are of course very nice and very friendly. Many of them we had met before along the way in the ICW. We all got together yesterday at the dinghy dock and marched ourselves down A1A to the local pizza joint for a get together. We looked like a school  field trip group...a geriatric version that is.

I'm sending of few photos of our time in Florida...hopefully my next post will be from a deserted Bahamian Island. Hope you all are well and having a good start to the new year!

Anne and Marc

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Haul Over Canal: headed to Titusville/Cape Canaveral area

Our new German friends "Savannah Dreamin" headed into our anchorage at Dragon Point near Daytona

Who said there weren't pirates in Florida?

This one's for you Susie...

Marc always likes to take pictures of his sandwiches...here he is on Vero Beach eating his favorite...sausage and onions.

Our new German friends and their beautiful children

Rafted up with Savannah Dreamin' in Vero Beach

Brought our portable grill in for a BBQ

We left Alderaan on a mooring in Stuart and visited Marc's mom in Lantana for 4 days. 

The ICW in Florida is crazy busy....this is mild compared to a recent Sunday trip from Port St. Lucie to Lake Worth!
We'll never travel the ICW on a Sunday in Florida again!

Bob and Diane in Sanderling waiting for a bridge opening. Nerve racking!

One of our many dinners together with B and D

Our "taxi to the state park beach

Studying the charts with B and D to cross to Bahamas....they are the gurus...we're the  newbies hanging on to every word of advice they have to offer!

Marc and Bob making a diesel and water run.
 "Click and Clack"!

A different kind of sunset....beautiful clouds

Using our wind scoop for the first time...what a difference it makes down below!

Motoring past the unbelievable mansions in Palm Beach

John D MacArthur State Park near North Palm Beach

Crazy busy anchorage in Stuart, FL.
Here's where we met up with our neighbors Bob and Diane on Sanderling.