Life Aboard: Dragon Point, Merritt Island

We left the anchorage before 7 this morning. It's going to be a very long day, so we need to get an early start. We had to wait till we could see the crab pots between us and the ICW. We are expecting a windy day with gusts around 20-25kts so we are dreading Mosquito Lagoon. It is a big open body of water and can get rough if its windy. We have been thru when it was bad, but today was ok.. Probably one of our better passages.

Ponce Inlet Lighthouse

Rockhouse Creek, beautiful anchorage.

Do you think it might be a little nippy? He is sitting on an electric blanket, with 2 pair of pants, long sleeve shirt, heavy coat and face shield. And yes, the blanket is plugged in and on high! Got to keep my captain happy!

Lots of splashing from dolphins today.

This is an unusual sight, a sailboat actually sailing!

At Haulover Canal, looking toward Space Center

When we left the anchorage we were planning to go to Cocoa to anchor for the night. That's our usual spot. But we talked to SeaSalt and decided to go farther down so the next day wouldn't be so long getting into Vero.

We are getting a good push from the wind so we talked about several stops along the way and finally decided to go all the way to Dragon Point and anchor outside, instead of up the river as we have in the past. We will be getting there at dark and it would take longer to anchor up the river. We would like to visit Richard and Connie's daughter, Yvette and her family, but not this year.
I was wanting to get the BIG pizza this year. When I texted Yvette that I was missing the pizza, she said she would have delivered! Next year for sure!

So we had a Very long day for us. It started off cold and ended up hot because the sun was shinning in our faces and the wind was with us so we got very little breeze.

Anchored at Dragon Point

Looking toward Dragon Pt. It got its name cause there used to be a huge dragon on the end of the island. There is talk about rebuilding. Hope they do.