To Titusville
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 22 Apr 2011 22:25
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To Titusville, Brevard County,
Florida, USA
      This blog is all
about some of the properties we have seen so far on
the ICW
After our forty
mile journey and high excitement on buses last night, we put in a short sixteen
mile hop today to Titusville. That's the really nice thing about being on the
ICW - if you get tired you can pull in more of less wherever you fancy so long
as you don't cause an obstruction to the main channel and there are loads of
anchorages and marinas marked in Skipper Bob.
                      A
particular favourite
    We have maps.
However, we see life from a navigating eye, not a tourist eye, how thrilled we
were that our last bridge was called Nasa Causeway
Bridge
  Well
he wasn't impressed and neither were they
 Over to our right
by six miles was the Kennedy Space Centre, Cape
Canaveral, complete with Space Shuttle (left) ready to launch in six days -
wow
 Just past the
bridge was Titusville Municipal Marina, a good place
to stay for a few days; so Bear can order and have delivered our new hot water
tank. I'm now squeaking a bit about cold showers. We needed to fuel up and as
there were a couple of powerboats in front of us, we circled for a while. Time
for us to watch the many osprey all round us fishing and to train watch. Just
behind the marina is the main line. A train came through sounding the classic
American horn that you hear on movies (not films - I'm getting with the lingo).
It took over three minutes for this gargantuan transporter to pass. Each truck
had the ability to hold two containers stacked on top on one another. I counted
one hundred and seventy eight trucks, this train single deck. That done the
radio chirped and in we went to a very welcoming marina, three nights for the
price of two. Bargain. Immediately on the fuel dock, we looked up to see skipper
and daughter from Windreda, we first mat in Trinidad, then again in
Carriacou. Settled on to B73 by a skipper and dock master we wanted to go off to
a West Marine - apparently just across the road. The boat next to us had owner
Scott on board, doing a bit of tinkering until visiting time, his wife was in
hospital in Jacksonville with a bad chest infection. After chatting for a little
while Scott told us that West Marine had gone about six months ago favouring the
big store in Cocoa City. "Oh we've just come from there". "Ace is our big local
hardware store, they will help as they have a big marine department, but it's
about five miles, here have my car keys". Wow. Twice in a week we have been
allowed to borrow a car, WOW.
 Another first - to see an osprey sitting atop a
mast, whatever next
ALL IN ALL WHAT A
WELCOME
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