Day 17

July 8, 2006

The houses along the ICW in Florida are something to behold. Huge mansions with screened in pools, boat docks and guest houses sitting next to trailers with dilapidated docks and yards full of dead cars. The polarity here is shocking.

We had a long day on the water, but we couldn’t ask for better weather. We anchored in the Halifax river in the middle of Daytona Beach. We are in a manatee zone and actually saw one come out of the water and create a big splash. Hopefully we will see more in the coming days.

We’re getting close! They say the ship will come in on the 13^th and we will load the 14^th and 15^th. We hope to be in Fort Lauderdale by the 12^th so we will have time to defrost the freezer, clean up the boat, store things away, etc.