Travel on Momentary Hold

The main reason we decided to stay in Fort Pierce was to ride out some serious weather that was forecast. That turned out to be a good decision as we had a lot of wind and rain on Friday evening. The winds were the strongest we have ever experienced on the boat. Word in the marina was that the winds were up to 60 mph. Thankfully the dock we are tied to had us facing bow into the wind, so it was better than it could have been. A lot of boaters in the marina lost sleep and spent the night checking their lines. I spoke with a few that slept through the entire event.

Saturday morning turned out beautiful and led to an eventful day. Fort Pierce has a Farmer's Market on Saturday mornings and turned out great for us. We were able to load up on produce and some baked goods to get us through the next week to 10 days. A latin band was the featured entertainment and we could hear them clearly from the boat. Fort Pierce seems to have a lot of live music entertainment. We have also enjoyed listening to the musicians performing at the marina restaurant from the boat and it looked like a band was setting up to perform in the park yesterday.

A manatee swam by the boat early in the day and a dolphin came by during dinner time. See if you can find the dolphin in the picture below. I hope they return today.

After dinner I got a notification on my watch that there was going to be a SpaceX launch. I went online to get more info and eventually found out that it was going to be delayed until 11pm due to weather. I went out at 11 and watched the launch from the cockpit of the boat. The path of the rocket was southeast, so we watched it for quite a while. I know that it is probably routine for the locals, but it was fun to watch.

We will spend one more day here and start moving north tomorrow. Fort Pierce is a very nice stopover. Many people stay here all season, but a couple of days is enough for me and I'm ready to move on.