Monday, January 28, 2013 (Cocoa – maybe our last day?)

            At least it will be unless the wind is howling tomorrow!  The weatherman has predicted much like it is today, partly cloudy, slight breeze (Bob says 10 knots from the E/SE).  It better not be more than that, but we are planning to leave bright and early even though we don’t have too far to go – only about 20 miles.  Don’t want to venture too far out on the first day!!  That should take us about two hours to get to our next stop – Telemar Bay Marina near Melbourne (Indian Harbor Beach).

            We got an e-mail from another member of the Grand Banks association we belong to that their boat is at Telemar Marina, so we are hoping to catch up with them.

            The weather was nice today, but cloudy, and since I am still trying to shake off the dregs of this cold (or whatever mysterious illness I had) I decided to goof off today, so hopefully, I will feel like my old self tomorrow in preparation of facing the Sea Gods again.

            Lucy doesn’t know what’s in store for her.  She has gotten pretty comfortable at this stopover.  She still hasn’t made it up to the flybridge, but she does wander around the deck even in the daytime now.  The man who owns the sailboat next door was puttering around on his boat today, and he told Bob he was interested in looking at trawlers, so, of course, Bob offered to show him around ours.  Well, Lucy did not do her normal run and hide routine as he came aboard.  As a matter of fact, she just looked at him with this look of, “Just don’t disturb me.”  However, I think it will be a different story when the engines start up tomorrow.

            We have all our paraphernalia ready to go up top with us, and, hopefully, getting out of here won’t be as challenging as getting in here was!  That was a memory! 

            As Bob was showing the next door neighbor around I was staring out over the water, and saw something rather large swimming around.  I don’t think it was a dolphin, but I can’t swear it was a manatee either.  I’ll start keeping my eyes peeled again for more interesting sea life as we head out.  There was a huge pelican that swam by our boat, and because I always have my camera at the ready (NOT!), I missed getting the picture.  I’ll try to be more prepared in the future.

            That’s it for tonight, folks.  We are going to walk into town and get a pizza for our “last meal” – after tonight, I guess I will have to start working on our freezer supply!

            OK, folks – more tomorrow!