Monday, June 27, 2011

The Cocoa Village Marina Office and Boater's Lounge Building.

All of the buildings in this picture are part of the hardware store.

Carol and Betty Boop

What a perfect day today was! We unhitched our lines from the dock at Telemar Marina at 8:00 this morning. We only cruised 15 miles today. It was overcast and muggy. We arrived at Cocoa Village Marina at 10:15 A.M. What a nice place this is. Ken (dockmaster) was on the dock to catch our lines when we got here. He helped us hook up our electric and then helped us pump out our holding tank. The docks are wide, wooden, flat, clean, and sturdy. They have a beautiful boater's lounge and brand new looking showers, restrooms, and laundry room ($1.25 a load). Plus this marina is just across the street from the very quaint little historic town of Cocoa. There are lots of small boutiques, jewelry stores, gift shops, and restaurants. There is an old style hardware store about 2 blocks from the harbor that has 3 floors and multiple buildings. Norm and John did some preliminary investigating at the hardware store today. They plan on going back Wednesday for some serious shopping. We had lunch at a place called Norman's that was delicious and reasonable. It doesn't get better than that.

We have a car reserved for tomorrow because we are going to tour the Kennedy Space Center. We have paid for 3 nights here and we're all glad about that because of all the things available to do.

Note: I don't know if you noticed, but my pictures the last few days have had a dark spot in them. I don't know how that happened. John tried to wipe it away, but it seemed to be inside where you can't reach it. Well, today, I dropped my camera and instead of it breaking, it fixed itself. Suddenly, the spot is gone. I must be the luckiest person around. At least I think so.