Cruising up the east coast of Florida . . .

We stayed in Stuart an extra day due to bad weather.  As we pulled out of Stuart, we got our first glimpse of the Atlantic Ocean.  This is an early morning picture of the St. Lucie Inlet out to the ocean.  Here we made a left hand turn and headed up the ICW to our next destination, Vero Beach.

This was a beautiful stretch of the ICW, with small islands lining both sides.  We saw many boats like this one anchored off shore with it's passagers playing on the beach of the island.

We spent the night here at the Vero Beach City Marina.  Chuck and Mary Beth Cunningham picked us up for lunch, which we ate at their absolutely beautiful home.  It was so great seeing them and catching up on their life as Florida residents.

Our next stop was Cocoa Beach, where we dropped the anchor (or 2 just to make sure we didn't float away!) and spent the night in Indian Cove.  Anchoring out was "interesting", but it's a real pain in the butt to take Darbi to do her thing.  It was a dinghy ride to the shore under the bridge in the distance.

After another beautiful day on the water on Friday, we made it to Daytona Beach.  It's still so amazing to us to see the SUNSHINE EVERY DAY!  It just makes you smile!

We had lots of company following us on the way to Daytona.  The dolphins love to play in the boat's wake.

The ICW from Daytona to St. Augustine is very different than south Florida.  It's not as tropical looking but it is still very beautiful.

We arrived at this marina in St. Augustine late Saturday afternoon, where we stayed Saturday and Sunday night.  St. Augustine is every bit as beautiful as everyone described!!  It was sunny (go figure) and in the high 80's both days, but we walked, walked, walked historic downtown.

We saw the Castillo de San Marcos aka The Fort, . . .

. . . City Hall and Flagler's College.

And Dave and Darbi found some shade in the center of town and waited patiently while I hit the shops.  It was a great couple days!!!! We should hit Georgia by Tuesday.