Melbourne FL

7 November 2019
Depart: Daytona Beach Anchorage 8:00
Arrive: Melbourne, FL, Eau Gallie North Anchorage, 5:15
Distance: 73 nm

With a storm predicted to arrive in the area tomorrow afternoon, we started early and went longer today than usual. We could see clouds and rain in the distance and kept checking the phone app "Rainy Days" to see if we would get hit with rain. It looked like it had passed and then it started raining. We quickly closed the panels on the full enclosure and even faster got way too hot from the steamy weather conditions. Fortunately the rain did not last long and we could open everything up again.

Over nine hours traveling today felt quite tedious at times. We had a very long stretch of "slow speed minimum wake" stretch that felt like it took forever to get through.

Sights from today's trip ...

Boat listing at dock

Appears to be in too-shallow water

Pretty sailboat

Rain coming

Lighthouse

Clouds still rolling in

Field of US Flags!

Sailboat anchored next to sunken sailboat - brave!

Sailboat with a spider web of anchor lines in all directions
to hold direction even with changing current direction

"Flipper" having fun in our wake

Pelicans all in a row

Allenhurst / Haul-over Canal Bridge

With the time change, it gets darker earlier, so we had to find and be settled into an anchorage before 5:30. We wanted to anchor at Serenity Island where we had anchored once before, but we could not make it before sunset. The ICW Mile-by-mile guide we acquired at the Hampton Rendezvous recommended an anchorage in the Melbourne area.

When we got there, we found  it to be fine except other boats were already anchored there and the open areas contained minefields of fish traps. We managed to scope out a spot and get settled before dark.

Eau Gallie Anchorage near Melbourne, FL

Sunset at the anchorage