Bienvenue à Cocoa Beach

My friends from France wasted no time getting into the Cocoa Beach mindset. Here are Lou and Nico fresh off the plane from Paris minutes after getting to Cocoa Beach yesterday. And for their first morning, they woke up to this (below).



Dad and yours truly used the old guy advantage and hit the perfect micro-waves this morning before the boys were stirring.

Sunrise April 9, 2011

Sunrise over a glassy, tiny swell this morning in south Cocoa Beach.

Endeavour poised to fly

Space shuttle Endeavour on launch pad 39-A as seen from the ocean last Saturday, March 26. The STS-134 mission to the International Space Station is targeted for 7:48 p.m. EDT April 19.

Before the crowd

March madness

Slipped out Sunday to chase the migrating cobia.
Caught four nice fish off manta rays and turtles.
Smallest was exactly 25 pounds.

Cocoa Beach Wine and Food Festival

The crowd spreading out in the field waiting for
America to take the stage. It was hit after hit
starting as the sun set in the west.



Some had really cool seats.



Crazy bikes from the twisted minds at Lowlife Bikes.



The crowd was scooping up eats from at least 25 restaurants.
See the full list here.



Got a little backed up at the wine tent at times.



Legendary chef, Matt from Matt's Casbah, cooking scallops soon to
be drizzled with an out-of-this-world citrus/??? sauce. Trust me, it
was good. Everyone seemed to have a blast and it was over by 8:30 PM.
Can't wait for next year.

Third launch in two weeks