Day 170 Artemis 2 Rocket Launch Viewing from Daytona Beach

 

We left New Smyrna Beach and had an easy three hour sail up to Daytona Beach. Before Jessica and I hauled up the anchor (Jessica takes the helm while I tend to the windless),  I found the infamous lizard on the deck and donated him as fish food, so now we can sleep better tonight knowing that a lizard will not crawl into our bed.  Jessica and I got out of the dinghy and took a couple mile stroll to the area with all the restaurants and parks. We made it in time for lunch so we thoroughly enjoyed a Mexican lunch together. We walked around the Vincent Van Gogh art gallery and enjoyed the downtown area on a weekday when it was not so crowded. We enjoyed the gardens despite the vast amount of dead foliage still around from the hard freeze that Florida had this winter. We came back to the boat and took Alli on a dinghy ride to the beach. We were following the launch of the Artemis ll spaceship since it is only 25 miles away. Little did I know that the stream online was 20 seconds behind real life. When the countdown said T -20 seconds and counting (online), Jessica pointed to the sky and said “there it is”. Tomorrow we will venture to St Augustine.