Catch Our Lines: Space Center

Leaving Vero Beach, we saw many pretty sites and had good weather.

This small island had a long sand bar, King commented it would be a good place to fish.

A barge that is dredging the ICW.

We anchored at Melbourne Beach. I finally got a picture of a dolphin. There were several swimming around the anchorage.

A picture of Kennedy Space Center from the boat from the ICW.

We are staying at Titusville Municipal Marina. Titusville has a historic downtown; many of the buildings kept the old signs.

A manatee came up to our boat. Mantees like to drink fresh water, but it is against the law to give food or water to manatees. We were washing the mud off the front of the boat and the manatee was trying to get some fresh water. We didn't give the manatee the water, although it was tempting. The manatee is large. Imagine a horse without legs or a neck - thats the size of a manatee. The head looks like a dog. They have paddles for feet and a tail.

The manatee is on its back with its tongue sticking out catching fresh water that's running off the boat. It's head is pressed up against and under the boat. What you are seeing is it's chest, chin, tongue and upper lip. It's flipper is against the boat and in the whilpool.

King 'talking' manatee.

Five boaters put together a jam session. We has music, finger food and then ordered a pizza. It was a very nice evening. Lots of talented folks!

We spent a great day at Kennedy Space Center.

This is the space shuttle Atlantis. It was positioned here and then the building was built around the space shuttle.

A full scale replica of the Hubble Telescope.

This building will hold five Empire State Buildings in volume. It is big! Note the cars and trees to compare.

This is the space crawler which is used to take rockets from the construction site to the launch site. The fuel usage on this is 39 feet per gallon!

Control site for the early space flights.

Remember the early space capsules that dropped to earth by parachute? This was before the space shuttle that could land like a plane. It was amazing to see the advancement and technology that has occurred in the last 50 years.