Loggerhead Marina at Vero Beach

Kim’s Korner:
Loggerhead Vero Beach Marina is the prettiest marina we’ve been to yet. The marina is located within Grand Harbor which is a luxury waterfront and golf community. The golf courses are interwoven with small ponds and waterways lined with mangroves which the birds flock to. We’ve seen dolphin shows several days from our boat as well as lots of fish and manatees. One fish I have never seen before is about 10 inches long and very skinny – a trumpet fish - I found a photo online to include since my camera was not capturing its image well.
David’s uncle and aunt, Harry and Dana, live about 25 miles away. We enjoyed visiting two days with them. We ate at Ruby Tuesdays, had a delicious breakfast at Mulligan’s Beach House, walked the beach and had dinner at Marsh Landing – all very good. We enjoyed meeting their friends Don and Sue and got to see Harry and Dana’s house which is very nice. It was a great two days and so good to see family!
We took a dinghy ride with friends over to the Vero Beach City Marina and beyond. We found a place we could land the dinghies, cross the street to Jaycee Park and enjoy the ocean and beach. After that, we ate at the Riverside Café which was very good. There were fishermen cleaning their catch and the pelicans were just waiting with anticipation for the spoils and they were not disappointed! I took one picture of a pelican with an 18” fish in his beak – the tail was hanging out one side and the rest of the fish was bulging in his pouch – I’m not sure if I was more disgusted or amazed. So I had to do a little more investigating and found that a pelican’s pouch can hold 3 gallons (24 pounds) while his stomach can only hold 1 gallon (8 pounds). If a pelican catches more that he can eat at one time, the excess is stored in the pelican’s esophagus. The following is a famous limerick I found amusing which was written by Dixon Lanier Merritt in 1910:
Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican! His bill holds more than his belican. He can take in his beak Enough food for a week. But I'm darned if I know how the helican.

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