Begin – 28.08N  80.36W – 9:55am – Anchor Marina – Indian Harbor Beach, Fla

End – 26.83N  80.06W – 5:30pm – North Palm Beach Harbor – North Palm Beach, Fla

Total fuel:  127.30 gallons

Travel time:  7:35 hours

Miles traveled:  84 miles

Seas – ICW Calm winds SW 10 knots

I think that big Cuban dinner from the evening before slowed us down a little this morning, we didn’t get on the water until almost 10am.  We refueled, loaded up and headed on south… today is a short run only 80 miles to North Palm Beach Harbor Marina.

This days travels ran us past a really neat little state park, Matt found a rope swing hanging off a large tree, you know Matt, he had to climb it and give it a try!

Our morning run down the coast was filled with very cool sounding towns and beaches, like Micco, Sabastian, Preachers Hole, Jensen Beach and Hooker Cove, it was about a mile and a half after Hooker Cove when Kelly spotted a woman in a fishing kayak waving vigorously… Kelly radioed me and said he thinks she might need help, so we swung around and staring approaching slowly to see what was going on.  When we got within shouting distance I asked her if everything was ok and she said, absolutely… I said, my son saw you waving and thought you may be in need of some assistance… she said…. No…. I just say your rigs and you must be up to something cool and wanted to talk to you!  We all started laughing and chatted up a conversation… she introduced herself as Olive and we introduced ourselves as well… we told her our stories and she told us many of hers… She’s a retired Grandma (and the coolest one I’ve ever met) she fishes every day, loves being on the water and I quote “I don’t know what it is about my kayak, the manatees want to have sex with my kayak and the bull sharks want to eat it” of course the boys starting laughing their heads off!  LOL  We ended up talking for about 15 minutes or so and I’m sure glad we stopped, great lady and I hope to see her once again in the future.

This entire part of the ICW I started to fall in love with… starting around Saint Lucie Inlet all the way to Jupiter Inlet, the water started to clear up and the area was really nice and very conducive to my style of living and hopefully Marceda’s!

Right before we got to Jupiter Inlet we came up on a bridge with a bunch of young girls diving it…   I was watching them and their free diving skills where quite impressive… when one of the girls came up and I asked what they were seeing…  they told me they were looking at a dead sea turtle…  I thanked her and said to the boys… time to stop and do a little investigation! 

The water had about 35 feet of vis and a ton of fish around the pilings… we really enjoyed ourselves and hung here for about 40 minutes.

We loaded up and headed for our destination, only 10 miles left, easy run.

As we approached the North Palm Beach Marina, I had some crazy guy yelling at us… something about crazy guys on jet skis from New Jersey… as I was looking up at him, he say, yo Kel… it’s Dave McPherson… I almost fell off my ski… I haven’t seen Dave in over 15 years… how cool is that!    I got to meet his son, which is a very nice young man and Dave and I got to catch up!  That was really nice… Dave I’m so glad you tracked up down and took the time… thanks Buddy!

At this point it was time to call it a night… fortunately we had a nice arraignment setup by my Matthew… his best friend Brendan recently moved to West Palm Beach and Matt called and connived he and us into their home for the next couple days. J  Thanks to Nicole and Pat, they treated us like family… Mr. Kelley (Pat) picked us up at the Marina and Mrs. Kelley treated us to a lovely meatball & rigs dinner, it felt like home… yummy yummy!

Over & Out

Captain Kelly, SPC
(Self Proclaimed Captain)