The Christmas festivities started last night in Vero Beach Marina. There was a parade of boats decorated in holiday lights, illuminated santas and of course tacky reindeer complete with blaring music.... The parade ended next to Persephone:
To add to the festivity, there were about 15 kayaks (all decorated with lites) paddling around the anchorage singing Christmas carols at each boat. We joined in by putting up lites in the cockpit and blowing our horn as each boat passed. It was great fun and got us in the holiday spirit !!
I was up at 6:45 this morning to listen to the weather forecast, and speak with our weather router. We wanted to head over to the Bahamas in the middle of next week. The weather guru said no way....a major front is forecast to cross the Bahamas from Tues until later in the week making a crossing unwise. He said go and go NOW, he gave a window of Sunday night into Monday morning. So, we immediately started to prepare the boat to get underway today down the remaining 60 miles of the ICW.
What does this all mean ?? We will exit the ICW via the Lake Worth Inlet late tomorrow afternoon and do a night sail across to Grand Bahama Island arriving on Monday morning. We will be going to Lucaya to clear customs etc and wait for the front to roll through. Once we are in the Bahamas our cell phones will NOT work. You will only be able to contact us via email and then only if we have access to the internet which may be spotty in the outer islands.
So wish us luck, and follow along on ShipTrak as we cross tomorrow nite (D +T soon to be X-patriots)
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