Merry Christmas from South Florida
When we last reported in we were in Cocoa Village, near Cape Canaveral and the weather was cool and windy, and I commented on how variable it was. Well, it has continued to be variable, with a bias to poor, with a lot of wind. Note the wind in the palms in the adjacent pic. We departed Cocoa under lighter winds, but continuing out of the north for a 50 mile run down to Vero Beach. We hung out on a mooring buoy in the Municipal marina for the night, under a surprisingly pleasant evening. Enhanced by the local Power Squadron having a Xmas party very close by, with a band playing great music, that we were able to dance to on our upper deck. Unfortunately, the location was also no-see-um (Ceratopogonidae) central, which left Judy with about 75 bites. Given the progress we had made over the last week, we could slow our travels to arrive in South Florida for Xmas, and the forecast for the next few days was good to stop and enjoy the weather, so we backtracked a bit to a w