We made our way on to New Smyrna where we see there is a free dock listed on our charts. The dock says no overnight docking, but we’re told it is not enforced. We pulled up and docked at their floating dock. Floating docks are nice because of the tide changes- it floats up and down on pilings so your boat is always at the same level to the dock. We are coming into areas that have major tidal changes- some as high as nine to ten feet or more difference within six hours or so! Once we were secure, I got Lauren’s bike off so she could ride around town. I stayed on the boat and hung out. After a while I heard voices and looked up to see a Zumba class forming in front of the closed conference center we were docked in front of. It amused me to hear them blasting the music and they all stayed about six feet apart from each other. Lauren returned and I secured the bike back on the boat. I walked Frank around the deserted town for some exercise and returned for dinner.
We still want to find that ‘perfect’ anchorage and we are going to continue to search for it. It is a bummer that everything is closed because we are so close to Hyde Park Daytona, but obviously they are not open either, so there will be no need to stop in Daytona. We looked at our options and determined we would head to an anchorage about fifty miles away- Fort Matanzas.