Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Vero Beach, FL

After coffee and oatmeal for breakfast I wanted to head over to the beach. Waited to see what was on Wayne’s agenda and he joined me for a walk on the beach. We ran into Dave, Ellen & ThisBe (Cordelia) on shore and chatted. They’re also waiting for a DC adapter for their computer. It sounds like UPS comes early here so mine may be waiting for me in the marina office. Yep it was .

We caught the bus to the beach and strolled along the waters edge, chatting, while I looked for treasures in the sand. I found a few small, pretty shells, 2 brown and 3 green pieces of sea glass that I’ll add to my collection to bring home. I plan on turning these little collectables into some other little treasures. :)

I also found two dead eels and a puffer fish washed up on the beach (no, I didn’t take those). It was a beautiful day out. It reminded me of one of those Early April mornings where you feel a hint of summer on the way. A nice cool breeze with the sun on you to keep you warm - One of those kind of days.

After that we caught the bus into Vero and stocked up on some tonic and soda water ($.81 for two liter bottless). Rum and gin may be cheap in the Bahamas, but the mixers are NOT. We managed to get to the Publix on the bus trip into Pocahontas Park and out on it’s return from Pocahontas Park with no waiting in-between! We may be able to get out of here tomorrow (weather conditions permitting) since the DC adapter for the computer showed up today. Yay! I just hope my AC connector for the computer continues to work too. It took a hard knock yesterday getting into the boat and then didn’t want to work. I got it working again, but if the DC adapter doesn’t work and the AC adapter decides to stop working, then I’ll be without a way to charge and use my computer. Not a happy proposition…

We decided to dinghy over to the Riverside Café for a burger & happy hour ½ off beers.

One guy there had caught a good size Red Fish and was filleting it as we pulled up. It grossed me out to see that the fish was still gasping to breath while he was filleting it. One half of it was filleted and he was working on the other side hacking into it.

Yuk… Watching that and seeing all the dead floating fish (from the cold spell) collecting around marina harbor and smelling their decaying carcasses really is enough to swear me off fish.

We had a spectacular sunset tonight at the Riverside Cafe'. People collect on their deck for the sunsets with sundowners (drinks) in hand. I had to keep running outside with my camera between bites of dinner. I was glad to have my camera though. It’s been a while since I’ve taken any pictures.

After dinner we headed for the marina showers. Pulling into the marina dinghy dock – the smell is getting to be quite odoriferous.

This is the bridge we go under to return to the marina from both The Riverside Cafe' and the Dockside Grill. The Riverside is on this side of the ICW (to the right of the picture) and the Docside Grill is on the other side of the bridge to the far left side of the picture.