Vero Beach was our destination today. This has been fondly named 'Velcro Beach' as people tend to stay/ or be stuck here or a while. We will find out if this is really true. What we have just figured out is that we really are down to the wire now. All of sudden, we are essentially only 4 travel days away from Miami and the jumping off point. AHHH! There are a lot of things still, yet, to be done. Vero Beach is the place to do a lot of these things at least the provisioning. First, the city has a free bus system that will take you all over the city of Vero Beach. We had called ahead to make a reservation for their mooring field. This is very popular location and the whole marina caters to the cruisers. We got our mooring assignment and headed for the ball. There was already one other catamaran on the ball. We just basically pulled alongside and tie onto their boat. They are, of course, tied to the mooring ball. The maria has a wonderful dinghy dock, captains lounge, showers, and a full complement of washers and dryers. It's a cruisers paradise. The first thing we did when land is to get online to order a beach cart from Beachcartusa.com. We have been looking for something for Dylan so that we can get him to the beach and in and out of the water. The small wheels on the stroller just don't cut it in the soft beach sand. Also, once Connor starts splashing about....Dylan, of course, wants to 'jump in' as well. This unit that we ordered, is basically a dolly with large balloon tires (from Wheeleez) that we are going to strap a supportive chair to. This way, we can pop it in the dinghy and head to a beach with the full anticipation that Dylan will enjoy the water as much as he wants. It should arrive on Friday! very excited.
After that, we headed to shore. Once we familiarized ourselves with the bus system, we decided to jump on and start buying food for the trip. We need to provision as there are not many locations to purchase food in the Bahamas. We did almost two cars full of food and then headed home in a cab. The buses are great but they only allow you to carry packages on the bus that you can pick up and carry yourself. We wouldn't have gotten away with that for sure. Although we had a very full load, we probably have at least one other trip for groceries and then I must get a few things for Christmas. I have a feeling that we may be here for a few more days than expected!
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