Day 5: Titusville is a sleepy little town

In the shadow of the giant NASA space complex is little Titusville. It has a quaint little downtown, but it looks like it has been hard hit with the recession and the cutbacks in the space program. A lot of stores were empty. With TIKA resting on a mooring ball, we motored into the marina with our main lifeline to the marina, our dinghy. The municipal marina has a small store for essentials, a screened in lounge area and clean restrooms with showers. Marlene and I walked downtown and found the Chocolat Cafe and tried their raspberry white chocolate scone which was itself worth the journey downtown. We checked out a few stores, saw several manatees grazing in the shallow waters and checked out the restaurant on the waterfront for happy hour and dinner prospects.
We ended up staying on TIKA for dinner as the waves were kicking up and the dinghy ride to the restaurant would have been a little damp. Life on a boat is pretty simple....we played a couple of games of scrabble, watched a little TV, and made tacos for dinner. After a beautiful sunset it was another attempt at learning how to sleep peacefully on a boat with movement and noise of water lapping up against the side of the boat.