Vero Beach!

Vero Beach is one of our favorites places along the waterway. It's very popular with cruisers too. The marina only has a few vacant slips but the mooring field is virtually empty. That'll change within the month when the cruisers arrive. The mooring balls will be full with three boats per ball.

Anna Marie took off for the vegetable market while I stayed behind trying to nurse this sore throat. She returned a couple hours later loaded with fresh veggies and fruit. 

After the victuals were put away, we rode the bus to the boardwalk, discovered that one of our favorite restaurants was no longer there, had lunch in the new establishment that took its place and walked back to the marina. I had been doing exercises to ease the pain of plantar fasciatus and it must be working as this is the first walk in over a year that I had no pain in my heel.

Back at the marina, we talked to Jackie (Sea Otter II) for a while in the captains lounge after which we returned to SUNSHINE. 

While Anna Marie tended to the laundry, I fired up the dinghy motor. It hasn't been started since we were here last Spring sometime. It took six pulls to start it. Most were just getting fuel into the carb. After that, one pull every time.