Indian Rocks Beach

Yesterday was a lazy morning as we had no real plans other than staying in Bradenton another day to play with our friends and take a dinghy ride to explore the area.  That changed when Ray told Linda she better get out of bed and look at how the weather forecast had changed to looking better for a Tuesday-Wednesday Gulf of Mexico crossing rather than the Wednesday-Thursday forecast that looked better the night before.  At nine o'clock we pulled away from the lovely community dock in Riviera Dunes.  Five hours later we pulled in to Madeira Beach Municipal Marina for fuel.  Our first fill up since Marathon, and this was only necessary to have enough to cross the Gulf. This resulted in an average of 3.85 miles per gallon.
An hour and a half later Bob was catching our lines to help us tie up to the free dock at Indian Rocks Beach in which you are not supposed to stay over night but we decided to test our luck.  Friends came and met us at Mike's Pizza for dinner.
Early this morning we checked the weather again because last night the weather forecast had changed for the worse so we thought we would be leaving earlier than originally planned.  The weather forecast was even worse so we decided not to cross the Gulf yet.  Every time we get beat up we say we are going to wait until the weather is perfect to do it again and it is definitely not predicted as perfect.
We are going to try our luck again tonight at staying on the free dock.  Tomorrow we will move north to Dunedin Municipal Marina for the best weekly rate in the area unless we get kicked out of here before that.