Back to Daytona Beach 1-5 April

    

   After 3 weeks at home in Yorktown to file our taxes and get our Pfizer COVID vaccines, we are now back in Daytona and onboard Tides Inn.  We have a few days to get resupplied and repacked and a couple of maintenance items completed like a bottom and prop cleaning and shaft inspection. 

  We had what sounding like a rattling in the shaft and I got a recommendation to check the engine mounts. Turned out 3 of the four mount bolts were loose. We tightened those and then had a local mechanic come check the shaft alignment which turned out okay, so we are good to depart on the 5th.

   Meanwhile, these few days in port gave us time to walk to the famous Daytona Beach a couple times. 

 We were hoping for a great sunrise on Easter Sunday but there was a large bank of clouds right in front of the sun. However, within a few minutes the mighty sun began shooting sunbeams through the cloud openings, creating a wonderful display.

   For Easter dinner we treated ourselves with a terrific dinner at Ichi-Ni-San, a Japanese restaurant along the Daytona Beach Street just up from our marina. A nice change in flavors from the standard burgers and fish sandwiches I normally order.

Daytona Beach always meets and exceeds one's expectations for a party town on the water. Hard to beat. Soon however, it was time to get moving again.

   Back on the ICW heading to New Smyrna for a final visit with Tara and Carol before heading back northward.

  Typical boaters you see along the Daytona Beach waters, if not racing on the track or beach they are racing on the ICW.