November 11-18, 2011 Melbourne, FL

 Notice the very rough surf a a result of the off shore low pressure stalled!  It's great to be off the water for a while and being able to sit and walk at the beach!

Bon at Melbourne rough surf!

surf at Melbourne

Sunset is at about 6:20pm!

Bike ride on Merritt Island quiet neighborhood

Still a little windy after several days here

These are some of the things we have seen in and around Melbourne on our bikes!

Captain Sid

November 10, 2011 Thursday Titusville to Melbourne, FL

Our trip today was about six hours and the weather was warm and sunny!  Pulling up the anchor was relatively easy.  When I get to Melbourne I'll remove the electric motor and have it tested.  It just may be time for a new windlass.  Ouch!

Thinking about being here in Melbourne reminds me of my three reasons for heading south for the winter:  sun, warmth and salt air at the beach!  Also, just a side thought, the most worriesome part of the entire journey was not the rough seas on the Chesapeake Bay or the ocean legs around New Jersey and Beaufort, NC to Wrightsville Beach, but instead it is crossing Route A1A and US 1!  I have said it before but it it so apparent when one rides a bike on these heavily traveled roads.  The volume of traffic is so heavy!  It is critical as a driver that you stay with the flow and  virtually race between stoplights and enter the flow from  a side road at any even small break in traffic and immediately "floor it!"  While there are bike lanes it is not bike friendly.  Bon and I cross at intersections and only when the walk light is on.

We are staying at the Anchorage Yacht Basin at 96 E. Eau Gallie Causeway, Melbourne, FL.  I need to have the windlass fixed before we return from home after New Years.  I will get an estimate for a new canvas enclosure of the cockpit and I have to troubleshoot a slight raw water leak somewhere on the engine which gathers in the bilge.

Looking forward some time off the water.

Captain Sid