- 54.8 miles
- 5 hours 47 minutes
- 9.4 mph average speed
- 12-15 mph winds
Today was a nice travel day except for a few light showers along the way. We did not have to stop for any bridges which was nice and we saw several dolphins along the way. We saw a rainbow while traveling and we even picked up a kayaker who was riding in our wake.
We were lucky to get a slip at the only marina in Cocoa as the manager told us they had had to turn 8 boats away today and still more are calling.
The day we arrived, we walked around the historic village and then had dinner on the boat.
On Tuesday, we Ubered over to Cocoa Beach, walked on the beach and had a nice lunch and later hosted our first docktails on our boat with Pam and Hank from Slainte, Mark and Laura from Wild Life and Chris from Betty Gail.
Wednesday was spent touring the Kennedy Space Center.
Thursday was “date night”! We had a delicious Italian dinner at Villa Palma and then attended the musical “All Night Strut!” at the Historic Cocoa Village Playhouse. The production was a collection of songs from the 1930’s and 1940’s and included singing, dancing and a live onstage orchestra. The cast included people of all ages. The theatre first opened in 1924 as the Aladdin Theatre which showed silent movies. The building also served as a Red Cross station during World War II.
Friday was spent visiting all the cute shops in the village followed by wonderful docktails hosted by Pam and Hank on the beautiful MV Slainte (slon cha) which means “cheers to good health” in Irish. There was a nice crowd of Loopers in all stages of completion including Pat and Bill from Uno Mas, Deb and Tom from Lollipop and Libby and Steve from San Souci. The Melbourne Harbor Hosts, Sharon and John, drove up and brought tasty sweets from a local bakery. After docktails, Kevin and I had a wonderful dinner at Cafe Margaux before the long wait until the 11:24PM rocket launch which we viewed from our boat. There was quite a lot of cloud cover but we were still able to see the rocket launch.
Kevin played golf with Pam and Hank from Slainte on Saturday.