April 14, 2014 Serenity Island

Leaving Loggerhead Marina in Stuart.   Again.

We left Loggerhead at a surprising 8:10 am.  I had intended on taking the dinghy over to the fuel dock and then bringing the big boat over there as well so we could fuel and get the dinghy back up on the swim platform.

Not to be.  A few boats had come in over night and took up all the room on the fuel dock.  So I tied up the dinghy on the T of the fuel pier and brought the big boat over there.  We hauled up the dinghy and then just took off,  postponing a fueling stop for further north.  Its not like we "have" to take on fuel.  We still have 450 gallons but I like to keep the tanks relatively  full to keep the moisture content down in the tanks.

About the only interesting boat traffic we saw

So off we went along the same path on the St. Lucie River we've taken about a dozen times before.  And then turned onto the ICW.

The ICW didn't have a lot of  traffic the whole trip today.  Guess being Monday and all everyone was working?  So it was a pretty easy 9 hours.  Boring 9 hours for the most part, but still pretty.

We had a few anchorages selected.  The first one, Wabasso had a boat in already there and since it was only 2pm we decided to press on to the next anchorage at Sebastian near ICW near day mark G55. 

As it turns out that anchorages was wide open in the Indian river and with the winds blowing a good 20 knots it didn't seem very appetizing so we went further north towards Serenity island which is really several small spoil islands off the main channel.  We figured they could afford some wind protection.  

Our little island providing some wind protection

We had never been here at Serenity, but it was an easy entry right off the ICW.  We anchored in 6 feet of water behind one of the spoil islands with three other sailboats.  

We're bouncing around a little, but far less severe than being out in the main body of the river.  Looking forward to being rocked to sleep!  And we'll sleep well because I have the A/C cooling the aft cabin down and we put out the anchor snubber so the anchor is stuck really well.  

Along with an almost full moon, and a red sky (red sky at night, sailors delight), its will be a pleasant night!

Tomorrow, Titusville and possibly meeting up with some old cruising friends on Priorities.