December 27th- Vero Beach, FL to Jensen Beach, FL

Goodbye Vero Beach. We enjoyed our stay but this is an adventure we’re on. It’s time to move on. In all honesty, we probably should have stayed a few more days. The current weather pattern is not ideal for traveling. 15 to 20 knots SE winds, interspersed with rain squalls. I think we were in Vero for so long we forgot about adverse conditions and small craft advisories.

Goodbye Vero, we’ll be back.

We made some friends during our stay. We hope to run into some of them during our journey. Others stay in Vero for the winter so maybe we’ll see them on our way back North in the spring. We’ve gotten to know the town well, so it will make a good provisioning stop. Catalpa is loaded up right now. The bottom is clean. The diesel tanks are full.

This evening we are anchored in the lee of a big bridge and causeway. There is a park under the bridge for Ollie’s late day commando raid. Originally we planned on dropping the hook in Manatee Pocket or further up the St Lucie river in Stuart. We opted to end the day in Jensen Beach. Captain and crew were tired. The Indian River was kicking up a lot of spray today. We’ll access the weather conditions in the morning and make a decision about tomorrow’s itinerary then.