Not bad! Life on a mooring ball is great! While kinda great.
You don't have to worry about your anchor slipping; you have
great neighbors; the views are spectacular; free buses will get us most
places. We have been here for two and a half weeks. We have been
busy most of the time. Our solar panels and wind generator have given
us enough power to do what we want to do (electrically speaking).
Ahh, the 'kids'. They have been our mooring challenge. Levi
knocked
Gina out of the dinghy and Gina went swimming. That wouldn't be too
bad except for the red tide we are experiencing here. We had to hose
her down and give here a doggy bath. Sniff, sniff; hmmm, doggy odors.
She is doing all right now but she doesn't trust Levi. I wouldn't either.
Then there where the intestinal problems and the late night dinghy
trips to shore. We found that they were snacking out of the litter box. It
took us a week to figure that out. Samantha Jane decided she didn't
want the dogs on her boat; so she pee-ed on their food (and sometimes
missed). We think we have broken her of that habit but sniff, sniff, hmmm.
All in all the kids have been fun, but it is time to have some quality time
without
them.
Thanksgiving here was good. We had plenty of food and
conversation. There were 130 cruisers at the annual Vero Beach Cruisers
Thanksgiving. We shared a table with S/V Magic, S/V Ridge Runner all S/V
Luna Azul. S/V Celena went to Fort Pierce Municipal Marina to install a
water maker. They had a Thanksgiving feast at their marina.
The boats are anxious to head South and cross the 'Stream' to
the Bahamas. However, there has been no weather window for over three
weeks. The wind has been blowing out of the North (bad) those three weeks
except for 6 hours a couple of days ago. The temperature is pleasant, but
the cruisers are getting impatient
We leave here in three days to store our boats for a couple of
weeks so that we can head home for the Holidays. We have been conveying our
farewells to the many folks that we met at the anchorage.
We are renting a car to
take the kids back home. Don't tell them, but only Samantha Jane is coming
back (maybe). While at home we will have a bunch of work related meeting;
visit
the other (real) kids (and our grandbaby), and have Bob's mother over for
Christmas. Then back to Vero to continue our voyage.
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