Getting Settled For Christmas

We are now anchored in North Palm Beach. This is where we plan to spend Christmas and probably New Years. We said goodbye to our friends from Jock's Lodge and Star Shadow at a little get together on Star Shadow Wednesday night. Both Jock's Lodge and Star Shadow plan to spend Christmas at Vero Beach but we wanted to be in the Lake Worth area to have some work done. It was hard leaving but we also know we will meet up again just as we have before. As we left Melbourne Thursday morning we had a pod of dolphins swimming in our bow wave for at least 45 minutes. The water is getting clearer the further south we go so we could also watch them below the surface swimming parallel to and about 1 - 2 feet off Ariel. Our anchorage is surrounded by beautiful homes and high rise condominium complexes. While here we need to have our life raft repacked. It needs to be inflated every three years to check for damage and then repacked replacing any food or water items that have or will expire. We also need to have insulators added to one of our backstays. This is so we can make the backstay an antenna for our new SSB radio. Both businesses have shortened work weeks for the holidays so it will be January before we can have the work done.