Great Sale Cay Back to the USA 2017!

So we left at about 7:30pm heading to Ft. Pierce. Several boats had left the anchorage earlier in the day, so when our armada left there we only a few boats in the harbor. We left with Avalon, All the Way There with Alan and Ruth, Easy Living with Dalton and Judy, Saber Tooth with John and Nora and Rhiannon with Benny and Lisa.

Really our last Bahaman Sunset

 

Of course, Shay took the first watch and I went to bed. The water was rougher than we had hoped so I wanted to sleep if I could. I dosed then woke up and the boat was rocking and rolling so I went back to sleep. I figured when Shay couldn’t take anymore, he’d wake me. The guys kept talking on the VHF to make sure everything was ok. I woke up at daybreak and Shay slept for a few hours then just laid around.

We were early getting to the inlet so the current was not slack. The water was very rough going in, but calmed down when we got inside.  There were lots of people out on the breakwater fishing and others on the beach sunning, playing in the water and wind-surfing. It was just another Friday afternoon at the ocean.

Heading toward Fort Pierce Inlet

It is rough going in. This is one of our armada going in in front of us

A Friday afternoon at the beach

Fisherman on the breakwater.

Swimmers, sunbathers, windsurfers, and watchers

Once you get inside, it calms down.

Ft. Pierce Coast Guard Station

We got to Vero Beach at 3pm after a long rough trip. We traveled over 19 hours at 6.8kts and went about 130nm. We traveled a little faster to help the stabilizers and get out of the Gulfstream faster.

It's always good to see this big USA flag at Vero. First of all it's good to be back in USA and this flag means we are at Vero!

On a mooring in Vero, again

 

Love these sunsets

 

 

Our trip from Great Sale to Vero

We will spend a few days here and then head “norther”.  Well, I thought that’s what we’d do but Lauren called us and she found a house she wanted us to see, so we rented a car and drove to Wilmington house hunting. She put in an offer but didn’t get the house so we will keep looking.

Back to Vero for a few more days and then we will start moving. We got a few provisions, haircuts, and ate Mexican a few times. We ate there twice. I had the early special or lunch two tacos with shredded chicken, rice and beans. It was a real deal and a lot of food.  Yes, I watched what I ate. And I walked a few times while we were here.

We turned in the car, washed the boat, washed 2 loads of clothes, filled our water tanks, took off our trash, and paid our bill. We are ready to leave out tomorrow morning.  We thought about doing an outside passage, but the weather is too windy for the next week to be outside, so we’ll do the ICW.

We left Vero at 6:40 on April 30. We know we have a long day and want to get started as soon as we can. As always, Vero has been fun.