We left our anchorage south of Ft Pierce early and headed to Vero Beach, FL. We had over cast skies in the morning but it did not rain. We had winds from 5 to 11kts, at times we were able to sail. The ICW is not always wide enough to sail so we also did a lot of motoring. We arrived at Vero around 12:30. At first we were told to raft up with another sail boat that was 6 ft shorter than us and had no one on the boat. We tried but it was difficult and it had very few forward cleats and netting like there were pets or kids on the boat which made it hard to get to the cleats it did have. We looked around and thought we saw a empty mooring ball and radioed into the harbor master and asked if it was spoken for. He told us we could have it, so we detached from the little sail boat and got a ball to ourselves. We got the dinghy down in the water and headed to the dinghy dock. We were hoping to get to shore in time to catch the local free bus to Publix. We caught the 2 o'clock bus. On the way to the dinghy dock we saw a boat we had chatted with last winter and traveled along with for several days. The dinghy was at the boat so they were probably on board but we were in a hurry to get the bus. After our grocery trip when we returned to our boat the other boat did not have the dinghy tied behind. We guessed they must have been ashore. It was good to be able to buy milk, bread, & coke. Hard to find in the Bahamas. While we were out and about we stopped at a place called Two Jays. We had eaten there before. Big serving and good food. We decided since we had not had lunch we would have linner. Then I would not have to cook tonight. We ate salads and got big pieces of Carrot cake to go, to eat for a late night snack since we were not eating another meal today. Tomorrow I will do our laundry and we should be ready to head for home.
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