Great Loop II Date: 05/13/2015
Day #285 (Wednesday) 73.7 miles (3932.8 total miles)
Locks: 0 (30 total locks)
Bridges: 0 (4 total bridges)
Mooring: Titusville Municipal Marina
Our trusty clock brought me out of bed for another early start. The run to Titusville was going to be a long one and we needed to start early.
The night had been very warm with no breeze. Even the little camp fan did little to make us comfortable. However, we both noticed a big improvement in the side effects from the vertigo.
We dropped our line to the mooring just before sunrise and made way up the calm and quiet AICW. The shores were dotted with huge multi-million dollar houses and condos. Neither Todd or I remembered the area being so developed in 2011.
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Already moving along when the sun peaked over the trees. |
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Big housing boom…BIG houses. |
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Nesting osprey on the Waterway markers. |
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Very protective mother! |
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More development along the way with houses replacing trailers we saw in 2011. |
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This dive boat was in the same spot in 2011. |
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A builder of model tall ships and pirate ships. |
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Thunderhead over Titusville. |
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The Addison Point bridge (NASA Parkway) opened for a sailboat but we could make it under easily with it closed. |
The trip to Titusville was uneventful. Some things along the way had changed. The most notable was the disappearance of the abandoned ship, Princess Grace, the former USCGC MALLOW, WLB-396.
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Princess Grace is gone! She’d been grounded off channel for years. She was sold for scrap metal to a company in Salisbury, MD in October 2011. I took this picture of her in April 2011. |
We made good time and decided to take up a mooring at the Titusville Municipal Marina. They didn’t have these moorings in 2011. They were quite a ways away from the marina and seemed fairly unprotected. They were in a No Wake area so the waters remained calm.
There were storms throughout the area but they dissipated before they got to us. We were able to leave the doors, windows and hatches open and enjoy the wonderful breeze that came through OB.