What a beautiful day, with a cloudless sky and temperature reaching
68 F! St. Augustine to Daytona is a nice section of the ICW. Areas of swamp and
sea grass, without a soul in sight, intersperse with canals leading to big
beautiful homes.
We’re southbound too early to encounter the Spring migration
of northbound boats, perhaps because it’s still a little cold; the oncoming boats
we do see are mainly Canadian. After Easter, the parade will begin in earnest
as boats head north for the summer, some probably beginning the Great Loop.
Mike and I saw two kinds of dolphins today. I photographed
one type and Mike the other. The ICW was full of swimming dolphins today and
several, with young ones, followed SeaDream for about a mile, close alongside,
as if racing us. They would leap out and “spy” us, amazingly playful. An unexpected sight was hundreds of palm tree
trunks with their tops twisted off… just stumps, we suppose from a windstorm.
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| "Wooden dolphins" used to moor very large boats. Photo by Linda |
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| "Swimming dolphins" racing by SeaDream. Photo by Mike |
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| Louis jumping the hoop on the deck of SeaDream in Daytona, FL. |
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