Moving On North

Yesterday, the kids were frolicking in the outdoor unheated pool at Cape Marina, Port Canaveral. This morning it is 6C and properly cold. At least we don’t have snow here. The weather continues as typical for Florida – a few days of easterlies, swinging to the south and southwest before a fresh cold front brings a norther which lasts for a few days. We are just into that fresh norther and so it will be foolish to try to sail to Hatteras ‘outside’. James has a plan that we will chug up the ICW instead and then pop out at Jacksonville FL to sail the remaining 300nm outside. It means three days of motoring but that will be cheaper than another three days in the marina and at least we’ll be moving on again.

The wildlife continues to astound – the ospreys at Sanibel allowed us to walk almost within touching distance of them on the causeway, whilst the black vultures here at Canaveral were similarly accepting of our presence as they delicately picked at a discarded fish carcass.

We have some more boat jobs to finish up today, such as replumbing the propane system to take a US gas cylinder, then we’ll be doing battle with the locks, opening bridges and shoaling of the ICW.