Sunrise Marina…Where’s the sun?

Here is a quick post to keep you up to date on our progress. We left St. Augustine Yesterday morning. The weather forecast was not very good for the ocean and there was a small craft advisory in effect, so I (being the ever-improving prudent mariner) chose to stay in the ditch. I had a long time to evaluate my decision as it was very narrow and there were tons of private docks lining the banks. I was stuck doing about 7 knots most of the way. We had to be in Port Canaveral for a business dinner engagement, so once we were in Daytona Beach, I decided to shoot out of the next inlet (Ponce Inlet) and test the waters so to speak.

The forecasts were pretty close to being accurate as we started in 1-2's; worked our way through the 2-4's and finally back to 1-2's but the waves were stacked up on top of each other. It was pretty miserable for about 2 ½ hours, but we got into our slip and were tied up by 4:00PM. We are staying at the same marina/restaurant (Sunrise Marina) as we did 2 years ago when this was our first port of call back in the US. We had a great time last time so we were happy to see it again.

We had a fantastic meal last night a Milliken's Reef. It is a new restaurant here at Port Canaveral and was excellent. I had a wonderful Chilean Sea Bass, and BJ had the Snapper Hemingway which was a parmesan encrusted fillet of red snapper.  They were both outstanding. We will be here for a couple of days because the weather looks really bad. It is supposed to be cold and windy for a while. We will use this time to finish organizing the boat and install the new ice maker that was delivered to the boat yesterday.

So we are tucked in here for a while. I will update the blog as we make our plans.