Daytona MM 847

Last night we anchored in the dark. We had no choice but to motor on to where we anchored for the night.
There were no anchorages for the last 20 miles so we had no choice but to drive on and hit our mark (in the dark).
We set anchor at 8:20PM so it wasn't like we motored on into the middle of the night.
We're not really pushing it, as some have thought. We get up when we wake up, lol.
Sometimes that's 8am, sometimes it's 10AM.
Yesterday there was a yahoo who sped through the opening under a bridge almost swamping a little boat & didn't slow down even as he passed us (under the bridge).
It would have done us no good to yell at him on the radio because yahoo's like that rarely even have their radios on... Maybe because everyone's always yelling at them for being a bonehead
Besides, the Coast Guard are pretty good at triangulating radio transmissions & busting people for inappropriate/improper radio use.
There was also a near miss as we left St Augustine.
Our anchorage there was 'just' North of a draw bridge.
We radiod the bridge for an opening & as we we just about under the bridge (committed- no turning capable at this point) a small sailboat with no radio (we heard the local marina radio the bridge too to explain a small boat w/out a radio was under the bridge) they turned right at us! They were newbies, covered in grease & out of control!!
I yelled in a voice I only break out once or twice a year & they were all apolojetic, etc.. but it was wayyyyy too close for comfort- AND under an open draw bridge to boot!
Anyway, We're real close to my Mom & Dad's place , so close we'll have lunch with them!