Yesterday we spent the day traveling and put on just shy of 70 miles. There was a new anchorage I wanted to get to and it looks like it is going to be worth the long day. It is tucked away behind a spoil island just south of Pine Island, north of Vero Beach 4-5 miles. When they dug out the ICW in the first half of the 20th century, the dredgings were piled on the side, forming "spoils" islands which are now vegetated and form places for anchoring off the waterway, but protected from passing wakes. Our current location is such a place, and it is also shileding us from the built up properties on the ICW, making it pretty private. We are going to do chores today and sit tight. I have to get taxes in order before we can go to the Bahamas and there are a few boat chores to do. The weather is cloudy and dreary and supposed to rain, so a good time to pull over and do some of that stuff. Below arre more pictues of our NASA trip.
Engine Hours 4775.9
Genset Hours 5410.1

Rocket boosters on the first stage of the Apollo  Rocket

Roadside gator, saw about a dozen of them the other day

The absolutely immense NASA construction facility

The tour guy said this building has a greater volume than the Empire State Building