Monday, July 6, 2009

Miami to Daytona heading home

My Dad & Peter have sailed along with me from Miami. Our destination is their home, near Daytona. We'll be there tomorrow- on July 6th. Today we sailed, out in the Atlantic again, for roughly 70 miles. We trolled for Mahi Mahi (and had a strike but didn't catch any), saw several dolphin plus an unidentified sailfish dorsal, saw a Green sea turtle with barnacles on its' back, came back inside from the Atlantic at Cape Canaveral, entered a lock and was then slapped by a Manatee. I was only going about 1.5 knots when Peter yelled out (from the bow) Manatee! This was just as we entered the Canaveral Lock- so the Manatee was in the lock! LOL. There was a group of onlookers who all must have thought I hit it but Peter said it passed in front of us then dove & actually slapped SunRunner with its' tail!
I was really shook up until I learned I did Not hit it..
Finally we anchored at dusk & had dinner followed by a celebratory Mango Margarita.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Fort Lauderdale

That's where my Dad, his friend & I are.
We sailed out of Miami port to the ocean side & skipped a dozen bridges- my plan since hitting all of those bridges on the way down (38 in 2 days!).
I saw flying fish today and a stingray twice the size of a garbage can lid which jumped completely out of the water about 20 feet from the boat.
Tomorrow we will go back outside in the Atlantic & shoot for Fort Pierce.