3/9/11 - 3/11/11 On the road again headed north. It was getting rough and the weather report said a line of weather was coming in so we anchored for the night in the lee of a very small island covered with birds (we saw our first flock of ibis'). Bad idea! During the night the wind changed 180 degrees and pulled the anchor out. We were very close to drifting hard aground but were saved by a mysterious figure in his underwear pulling in the anchor and running to a new location. In the morning the weather was still iffy so we ran 8 miles to another anchorage near a bridge. We laid down for a nap and the same thing happened again except in daylight! I vowed never to go to sleep again without setting the GPS anchor alarm. The next day we docked at Harbortown Marina which would be our home base for the excursion to Disney World. Right at dusk that evening there was a launch of a Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral. We were only a few miles away. Pretty awesome. Odometer now 1501 miles.
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