Ft. Pierce, Harbour Town Marina, USA

We left Green Turtle Yacht Club as planned about 6am and saw a beautiful sunrise.

 We then headed to Great Sale Cay  arriving about 6pm on Wednesday 5/8.  We were happy to see the large yacht in the Black Sound channel was gone. They ran aground out of the channel at low tide and needed to wait several hours to float again. We had a great night at Great Sale prior to our crossing. The seas were fairly calm and winds light for our trip off the banks into the deep water and through the gulf stream. We motor sailed a lot and we had plenty of fuel, so no worries! We beat the heat with sun showers. We made our own sea salt with the occasional spray over the boat, which felt good, but we did get salt encrusted.

Tom checked into the waterway net on his ham radio every day. It was great being able to get the local weather every morning.

 We were treated to a dolphin show on the banks just before entering the deep water of the Atlantic Ocean.

We saw some amazing cloud formations and cloud to cloud lightening in the gulf stream.

When Tom was sun stroke or very tired he let Kathy be Captain...he even photograph the moment haha!

The night watches were very cool with flying fish, bright stars and lots of plankton that lit up the water. We entertained ourselves by taking pics of ourselves and everything else!

 We arrived safely in the USA at Ft. Pierce Harbourtown Marina at about 8am 5/10.

We napped , went swimming, napped, ate dinner with friends Carl & Joyce, showered and called it a night. Today we are almost back to normal and will head on to Vero Beach as we head north towards home.