Captain Bob (also known as the "slave driver") blew the up and at em whistle this AM at 6:30! I stumbled out of bed and helped untie LeReve from the dock we were tied to. The sun was just coming up! How beautiful...."yes, Jane, there really is a sunrise!"
We left Ortega about 3pm yesterday, heading for the mouth of the river, just before the big, bad, ocean. We stayed at a marina directly across from a naval base and were warned that they "practiced" thru out the evening! Little did we know that meant at least once an hour.....thru out the entire night....that we would feel like we were in a tsunami! We haven't rocked and rolled that much since our nights at the Venoy in St Pete last year! Seems the navy likes to race their boats at high speed up and down the river all night long. When we were leaving at 7am, I said to Bob "go real fast and rock them"...ya, at 12 mph I don't think we made a ripple. They were probably sleeping, getting ready for dark. (I thought the government was shut down??...speaking of which, the army corp of engineers were dredging the river....and according to our depth finder, it was already over 50 feet deep??? go figure.)
At 7 am we entered the ocean "the outside" vs the inland waterway. It is faster and today was the perfect day for it....nice seas, almost made the ride boring! Boring is good. Except for a few shrimp boats, there was no boat traffic, did see a few dolphins, other than that, just a nice trip on a sunny day. We arrived at our destination about 3:30pm. New Smyrna Beach, where we cut into the inland waterway and will spend the night. Tomorrow we will head for Port Canaveral as a stop on our way to Ft. Pierce. That is where we plan to base until we get a good crossing window to the Bahamas....also we will have some company here, as Ken and Deb Rogers will come for a day or two....it will be good to see friendly faces....and we can brag about our grandchildren to each other👫!
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