New Smyrna 12-25 Jan

 

    After 3 weeks of transiting, we are in Florida and ready to enjoy the Florida weather, while visiting our friends Tara and Carol in New Smyrna.  Actually its not quite "Florida weather" as the temperatures are only in the high 60s during the day and mid 40s at night. But that's much better than the snows of Virginia. 

   We initially moored for a couple nights at the New Smyrna public dock right downtown. We then moved down to the anchorage a short dinghy ride away. We ended up staying nearly 2 weeks as the weather was fine and company great.

   Carol and Tara took us down to the Cape Canaveral beach federal park. In addition to the endless beaches the park is a great kayaking spot with good hiking trails.

      Our anchorage spot provided an excellent vantage point for watching rocket launches from Cape Canaveral . We'll proceed on down further south closer to the launch pads in the future, but while visiting with friends we were able to watch a Space-X launch in ideal conditions.

   Looks like a jet contrail in the photo, but in real time it is definitely a rocket speeding upwards and then arcing to the north across our horizon. We're looking forward to more launches as we proceed down off Titusville.