Fritz Island – Anchorage

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

One of the things we enjoy most while cruising is finding small local places to eat or visit where we can talk with locals or just watch the world go by. While we were in Ft. Pierce yesterday, we found the Sailfish Brewing Company, not far from the marina, which had a nice selection of locally brewed beer. Another place we love in Ft. Pierce is the Importico’s Bakery. It’s a nice place to enjoy a relaxing breakfast and a great cup of coffee. We usually like sitting at one of their sidewalk tables where we can watch the town begin to wake up, but today it was just too cold to enjoy that.

The day warmed up quickly with winds far less than there were on Sunday, so we had a nice short cruise to Vero Beach. We’ve been cruising the east coast for five years and this is the first time we’ve stopped in Vero. It’s a popular place with cruiser because everything you need is easily accessible and everyone is so friendly. They have a wonderful free bus system that takes you anywhere you need to go. Some refer to this area as Velcro Beach, because cruisers pull in for a few days and just can’t seem to leave…we’ll see what happens. We plan to stay a few days to relax, provision and visit with some friends.

Sailfish Brewing Co.

A glass of Lone Friar and White Marlin

Importico’s Bakery

The winds were so high on Sunday we had white caps in the ICW

Vero Beach

The sunsets have been amazing lately

Lake Worth – Anchorage

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore

We stayed in Dania Beach on Friday hiding out from another front that blew in during the night. Friday was another cold wintery day in south Florida. We’ve seen too many of those this year…and a stronger front is coming in tonight.

Saturday started out cloudy but turned into a wonderful day, boats of all sizes were everywhere and people were on their decks enjoying the warm sun. The Miami Boat Show starts next week so we saw A LOT of large yacht being moved that way. We traveled over fifty miles today through the land of excess…mega mansions and mega yachts. The economy here seems to be doing great because in every open spot new construction is going up. Travel through the ICW in this area is slow but very entertaining.

The sun breaking through the clouds…we left early this morning so we could get out of our slip at high tide.

You can see why we needed to leave at high tide…this picture was take Friday at low tide. 

We spotted six cruise ships in port in Fort Lauderdale

Another yacht that looks like it’s from the Star War movie

Not the largest yacht we spotted today but one of the prettiest

The yacht built for Steve Jobs – Venus is 260′ long making is a super yacht, but I don’t think it’s very pretty.

Here comes the next cold front