We cruised up to Peck Lake today on the ICW and anchored there near the barrier islands. Too windy and cold (65 degrees) to run from the flybridge :-(

We passed the port of Palm Beach, which is a real seaport, but nothing like the size and activity of Miami or Port Everglades at Ft. Lauderdale.
From where we anchored, it's a short dinghy ride into the beach on the ICW side of the barrier islands. Because there are no roads to get to here, there are millions of shells on the beach, not picked clean every day like the big popular beaches we were on the last 2 days at Delray Beach. That's Nonchalance anchored in the middle of the picture in the little lake. The barrier islands here are a state nature area where you can't walk on the dunes but you can walk the beaches, swim, shell and you can have dogs on the beach.
You can walk on little trails over the dunes to the beach on the Atlantic Ocean. These pretty yellow flowers, almost like Black-eyed Susans, were in the dunes near the trail.
This is almost a totally uninhabited beach (or "uninhibited beach" as Angela would say) with miles of excellent surf and sand and nobody but us. We saw only one other person on the each the whole time we were there, and I think she was a fellow boater that anchored in Peck Lake too.
Lots of shells on the Atlantic beach too. Kathy wished that Ann could come here because she and Ann both like to shell on the beaches. I didn't let Daisy run and jump in the surf, even though she wanted to, because she gets all sandy and I have to give her a bath afterwards to wash off the saltwater.
These were a few of the shells in Kathy's pockets when we got back to the boat.

Tomorrow we'll cruise up to Vero Beach, FL. With any luck, we'll visit Marshall, a friend of one of kathy's PEO sisters, Becky Z. Marshall is also on a boat moored in Vero Beach.