Vero Beach

Wishing everyone a blessed Palm Sunday!  I hope you had a beautiful day!

We are in Vero Beach.  Arrived yesterday and spent today going to town with some good friends we met in Oleta State Park in Miami before our first Bahama crossing.  They were here in the City Marina on a mooring ball.  We took a slip when we came in.  Marilyn and I walked on the beach for a while and Ed and Vic walked the town and talked.  It was great getting together with her on a beach.  Her and I were swimming buddies when we were in Oleta.  They came over to our boat in the evening for dinner.  They brought the main entree - pork tenderloin, a salad and the dessert!  I provided the boat and I made a noodle side dish.  We had a lovely time together and will get together again tomorrow.

Vic and Ed

Marilyn (she makes dozens of friends everywhere she goes!)

Vero Beach is a very pretty town.  It has the usual types of stores that are around beaches and are fun (and too expensive) to look through!  We enjoyed a lunch and an ice cream cone for dessert at a place called Cravings.  Very yummy!  I have a new favorite ice cream flavor - rum raisin!

Only stopped by this store because of this mermaid outfit!  There was a warning sticker on it to make sure kids were good swimmers before wearing this in the water and to be careful when walking since it's tight around the ankles.  I thought these were so cute, though!

I really liked the bench I was sitting on.  It was too big for the boat so Ed wouldn't let me take it home!  Can I get someone to make me one like this, please?

Tree with a lot of
Gypsy Moss

Close Up of Gypsy Moss

A gorgeous Hibiscus bush along our walk back to the boat.

To get to the sidewalk these Ibis flew over a chained link fence that was next to the path we were walking on.  The one close up in this photo had a limp from a hurt leg.  He didn't let it stop him though,  he just walked slower than the others!

We managed to pick a weekend at the City Dock Marina just when these 2 tall ships were scheduled to be here on an educational tour of some of the towns off the ICW.  These were hand made replicas of the Pinta and the Mina.  (I was told, that Christopher Columbus did not like the Santa Maria.)   Our slip ended up being right next to Pinta.  It was not that great a spot since people walking by to go on the Pinta could look down and see us in our cabin.  Hard to have any privacy like this!  It gave me a big smile when I heard a young child exclaim, "Look, someone's down there!"  Her dad's reply "that's their boat!"

We will be going to dinner tomorrow night over a couple's house, Bobbie and her husband, Eddie.  We met them the day we got into the slip.  They graciously helped us tie up our boat to the dock, they came on board to look at our Bahama pictures (she is trying to talk her husband in doing a trip there) and then invited us over their house.  They are a very friendly couple! 

We leave on Tuesday morning and will take 2 days to get to Cocoa Beach and see my cousin, Joe, on Merritt Island.