We both felt so much better now that we were underway again even if it was principally under power and not sail. South of Titusville we passed the former home site of a dear family friend, Dick Tillman, in Melbourne, FL who had passed away in October of 2020. A fire last fall resulted in the complete loss the house. Fortunately no one was hurt and neither of the neighboring properties were damaged. On our first trip in 2019, we spent three wonderful days there as guests anchored just off his property. With Dick gone and to see the vacant lot was sad. However, his family still owns the property and it looks like one of his daughters and son-in-law are going to rebuild and make it their retirement home. We are looking forward to a future trip to again anchor nearby to stop in for a visit.
We moved down the ICW another couple of hours and found a place to anchor in Hog Cove that was nicely protected from the southeast winds. When we awoke in the morning we saw hundreds, if not a thousand, ducks swimming off in the distance. They were too far away to identify but when we got Juno going again, the flock took off. It was quite impressive.
Wednesday Feb 2nd we covered about 70 miles under power on the ICW from 8 am to 5:30 pm stopping at Peck Lake, really just a little bump out in the otherwise narrow ICW. This put us about 10 miles or a couple of hours north of Jupiter Inlet where we planned to meet up with Bill Straith, the father of one of Sarah's two closest childhood friends, at his condo for lunch Feb 3rd. We made this same stop on our last trip so anchoring and getting ashore was fairly familiar. Bill offered us the use of his washing machine and drier which we gladly took him up on. While our load of clothes did their thing, we enjoyed catching up on family and close friends as well as a picnic lunch outside at Bill’s condo property overlooking Jupiter Inlet.
After retrieving our laundry and saying goodbye, we moved along another 10 miles down the ICW to Lake Worth at North Palm Beach. This is a popular anchorage with plenty of space to accommodate the many transient boaters like us who stop here. This anchorage provides good protection, a handy beach area to land the dinghy which is within easy walking distance of Publix grocery store and West Marine, and multi-million dollar homes and yachts as eye candy. Who could ask for more?
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