Just north of Ft Pierce the wide, shallow waterway was edged by many little islands and as usual lots of small boats with people fishing.

Just a small country house!!

And another. Note: no big boats parked out the front

This one had a little boat, but the one thing they all have in common are chimneys - it must get chilly in winter but it’s a  bit warm in summer.

The channel markers continue to be good nesting spots

2 fixed 65’ bridges then 85’ over head power lines. 

At the base of Cape Canaveral, after going under the Eau Galie 65’ fixed bridge, we turned east and made our way through a field of floats, all, we assumed, were attached to crab pots. They were evenly spaced with plenty of room to negotiate. We turned north again into the Banana River and our anchorage for the night.

This house on Dragon Point has seen better days.

The anchorage was on the other side of this swing bridge, our first time through one of these. The bridge pivots in the centre, allowing vessels to pass through on either side, keeping to their right.

Safely through. We had to go back through this bridge on our way out the next morning.

There was an Australian flagged vessel from Sydney in the anchorage and the captain was from Innisvale - such a small world. We anchored just north of the ‘No Wake’ sign and every boat would come zooming past us up to the sign THEN slow down or, if coming the other way, go slow to the sign then speed up past us. Thankfully there were not many boats. 

Lovely protected anchorage but we heard a buzzing noise coming through the water for a number of hours in the early evening but went away later that night. We have no idea what it was. When we pulled the anchor the next morning the chain was covered in tiny crabs which had to be washed/pulled off (dead crab in the anchor well doesn’t smell too pleasant, especially after a couple of days). Can understand why there are so many pots around.