Daytona Beach

We would like to go back out to the ocean for our runs, but the distances between the inlets are at least 60 nm. Also the next few inlets are tricky and they say you should have “local knowledge” to use them, hopefully this will change a little further south, but for now we are back on the ICW. The ICW here in Florida is much more forgiving and straighter so you are covering more ground than South Carolina and Georgia.

We started out early this morning as we wanted to make Daytona Beach, which was 55 nm away. There were many of us travelling sort of together, at one time there were 6 of us as you can tell by the picture. It was a warm and windy day so we were able to throw up a sail for a period of time, which increased our speed.

The large rainbow trout which was coming out of a roof looked a bit out of place down south here – course any 20 foot rainbow trout looks out of place with it’s head out of a roof!

Speaking of out of place, check out the old tug boat that somebody lives in, zoom in and you will see a dressed up Pink Panther! Apparently some woman came out of the doorway with just a shirt on after I took the picture, Heather was against the idea of circling around for another picture :(

One of the bridges in Daytona Beach has sea life murals done in tiles on the bottom of the pier, pretty cool considering you have to be on the water to see much of them. We are anchored in front of a large marina here in Daytona beach for the night.