Port St Lucie, Fl

We motored and sailed today 37 miles to Port St Lucie, leaving the anchorage in N Vero about 9 am.   It's just amazing how thin the water is in the ICW!  We traveled a very thin line down the channel in a building N to Ne 15 -20 kn under jib for a while the sun was out and the water and scenery was just beautiful!  Right now we're anchored in Manatee Pocket, a very cool and protected anchorage.......with some amazing homes and yachts.  We were hoping to take the outside route down to Miami but a weather forecast for strong easterlies will most likely prevent that.  Even so we're having a great time and Grey Hound is carrying us and all our stuff fantastically!   She's not even looking like she's down on her water line.  Many thanks to Jean and Tom for their great hospitality and the turkey for dinner was great!