Melbourne – Vero Beach
Saturday 3/14
Today is six hours on the water and totally unlike the past two heavenly days.
Today we were joined by what seemed like every powerboat in the county, as they rushed past in both directions heading to and from the Sebastian Inlet. Note to self: don’t do this section of the ICW on a weekend day again.
It just wasn’t as relaxing as the previous days. Their wakes making for rougher water. And the noise! It sounded like the Daytona 500 – I had been spoiled by the past two days. Today just felt like we were going from point A to point B, sort of like a necessary evil to get to where we wanted to go.
Vero Beach is often called Velcro Beach by cruisers because so many people arrive here and never go further. Previously we have only stayed here one day on each visit, so we decided to spend a week here and learn what the attraction was all about.
We are only 3 hours from Fort Pierce, which was our first “final destination” before making a decision to cross to the Bahamas or go elsewhere. But, now we will use Vero for that purpose.
And we do have to make some decisions….