Sandra B - - boy, asking for recommendations for interesting places to stop from Delaware to
Florida is like asking how many grains of sand there are on a beach. There are enough great/interesting places to stop that I have done the
ICW from Delaware/Pennsylvania (where my
kids live) twelve times and still there are many places I have missed and would like to stop and see.
- - Skipping over hundreds and only mentioning some of the highlights starts with Chesapeake City at the west end of the Chespeake and Delaware
Canal;
Baltimore inner harbor (recommend Anchorage Marina);
Annapolis; Reedville; Hampton, Va (recommend Public Piers); Norfolk (recommend anchorage across from Waterside Marina); Coinjock (just because nobody knows where it is); Belhaven (recommend River Forest Marina); Oriental; Morehead City/Beaufort; Wrightsville Beach;
Georgetown (recommend Harbor Walk Marina); Charleston;
Beaufort SC (recommend Downtown Marina); Savannah (Recommend Thunderbolt Marina); Fernandina Beach (recommend Fernandina Harbor Marina); St Augustine; Daytona Beach; Titusville (Titusville City Marina - access to Kennedy Space Center); Cocoa (Cocoa Village Anchorage - I live there and you can visit Kennedy Space Center from there and also Cocoa Beach); Lake Worth/Palm Beach; Ft Lauderdale (recommend Las Olas or Ft Lauderdale City Docks); and
Miami (Miami Beach anchorage and Biscayne Bay - Coconut Grove Marina/mooring field).
- - For planning purposes you can only do about 50 nm per day in the
ICW so there are dozens of
anchorages and smaller places to just spend the night then move on.
- - Also from Morehead City/Beaufort NC can can start doing "outside" in the Atlantic (when
weather permits) over-nighters to chop off days if not weeks from
parts of the trip. There are plenty of "inlets" to allow access back "inside" to visit the highlights mentioned.