2011-11-13 - to Daytona Beach, FL (mile 830)

Off we went for Daytona at 7:30am.  The travel time was only 7 hours.  We caught a bit of a favourable current early, but was fighting the current the last third.  It was a beautiful day.  We had to catch up on school (even though it was Sunday) as we had been very busy with the sites at St. Augustine and hadn't completed a lot of their work.    Connor took his book and a seat cushion to the top of the 

hard top and enjoyed the warm breeze while he finished up his novel.  It was nice to be on the go again as we are all quite anxious about getting to the Bahamas to enjoy the warmer weather and clear water.  We arrived

in Daytona at 2:30pm and within the hour jumped into the dinghy to head to shore.  It is often difficult to land your dinghy in places like this.  There are a lot of condos and, otherwise, private property that make it difficult to find a spot to land.  We ended up crossing to the other side of the channel to see what they would have.  Some marinas charge a dinghy docking fee, which would be fine as well.  Kerry ended up chatting it up with a police officer who allowed him to tie to their dinghy docks.  You can't find a more secure spot than that, I suppose.  We headed on foot over the bridge to the Atlantic Ocean side.  This would be our first Atlantic ocean beach.  Connor took no time to jump into the waves.  Dylan would not be left out.  I tried first to wheel him into the surf which actually  worked well.  I could soon see that he wanted more of the action so we got him out and let the waves pound into him a bit.  He loved it.  It was starting to chill off as the sun went down so we needed to get them out of the water and dry.  Not an easy task.  After a bite to eat we

started walking back.  About half way home, Kerry hailed a cab and we continued on that way.  It was really starting the chill and we still had the short dinghy ride home.  We piled back into the boat got them into their jammies and called it a night.  Another wonderful day!