Cocoa, FL to Webasso Bridge, FL (anchor)
February 2, 2022
Muddy, muddy anchor this morning that left lots of mud up on our bow sprit. The huge clot on the anchor looked like a wasp nest and took some maneuvering to disengage. Our salt water wash down pump isn’t working at the moment so we’ll have to either get to a marina or wait for rain. The anchorages have been good (meaning the anchors have set) but we miss the sandy anchorages in Georgia. There the anchor came up coated only with water (and not 20 lbs of mud).
This part of the ICW is pretty monotonous: great sweeps of water that’s really shallow on both sides of the dredged channel. There were plenty of dolphins and birds but other than that… I am hopeful that we’ll get opportunities to see some sea turtles or manatees as we move south.
Today was slower going: we had a headwind (motoring into the wind). We averaged 5 knots/hour which isn’t terrible but we normally average 6.5 to 7 knots.
Our low temperatures the last few days (and forecasted ones) are way warmer than our high temps last week.
There’s a lot of very shallow water here. We had hoped to navigate to some mooring balls near a marina this afternoon but we couldn’t locate them by sight and didn’t want to chance running aground, so it’s another night at anchor. It’s pretty here but I miss walking.
I am very thankful today for “normal things” like a phone call from a friend and even a Zoom meeting conducted while we were underway. Sometimes our days run together so breaking it up with these interactions is a treat.
We’re not sure where we’ll stop tomorrow – we just know it will be further south!
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