ICW

Sorry for my long silence.  It was an amazingly slow trip to the USA. I'm not complaining, merely saying. The winds were light.  However, it was always from the good direction. We came into the Intra Coastal Waterway at Cape Caneveral dancing over big swell. And once inside, the water was flat calm. We went thru the two birdges and lock with little trouble. And from there on it was only 50cm or 1meter under the keel. It still is difficult for me to accept that. It was possible to sail the first twenty miles of the ICW. 
We stopped at Titusville and from there it was New Smyrna Beach, which we thoroughly enjoyed, and onward to Daytona Beach with its great flee market. St.Augustine was good. The municipal marina had a coooool laudry room and lounge.  It was great to catch up with the household chores. And now we're on anchor just 3 miles north of St. Augstine and hope that we will be able to see the fireworks displays on 4 July from here. At least it will be a couple of days of taking it a bit calmer.