After we left Cocoa Village Marina,
we stopped for a night in New Smyrna Beach Marina. The rains came so
we ate on the boat and called it a night early!
The next morning we were headed for Fort
Matanzas and an anchorage on the Matanzas River Inlet! Our cruise took
us past Daytona Beach! It was Sunday and Spring Break in the area so
there was a lot of boat traffic. We were in no hurry and it was fun to
enjoy the sights!
Daytona
has 4 bridges, one of which has fancy tile pictures! One is the
International Speedway bridge but I couldn’t see the track!! The
shopping areas and the condos were very colorful. One house had a beach
scene carved in the stucco front! Pretty darn fancy!
We arrived at our very windy anchorage in time to drop the dinghy and tour
Fort Matanzas! This was a fort built by the Spanish in the 1700’s to
keep out the British! A National Park Ranger was there to give us a
history of the fort! He was a wealth of information! You can see
20BUCK$ anchored behind the fort!
After a short dinghy ride out to the inlet, we were back on the boat for Ken’s beauty treatment on the swim platform!
The
tides change 3.5 feet in this anchorage so we were going to do a couple
180 turns during the night! It was a spectacular night after a
gorgeous sunset! There were billions and billions of stars and a bright
crescent moon!
Enjoy the photos! Next post will be on St. Augustine, the oldest city in the nation! Pat
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