We have been at a mooring ball with an adjacent sailboat tied to the same mooring ball (rafting) for about a month now. We had thanksgiving with this cruiser community and heading now to Christmas with them too.
This community is a mix bag of mostly older adult couples who live on their boat for several months a year and stop at vero for a bit before traveling more south or the Bahamas for the winter months.
The vero beach mooring field has about 50 balls that each can handle 1-3 boats on them. Each boat independently creates their own power and gets water by dinghy from shore and goes a shore multiple times a day for groceries or pickleball or whatever. The marina offers showers, packages delivery and water and dinghy dock.
Daily at 8:15 is the boaters net on vhf where the daily pickleball games or other events and information is available on the radio.
Vero has endless restaurants and concerts many within walking or bus distance for the cruisers.
We have been busy with swimming at a local pool several times a week and pickleball at various courts and many bike rides, beach walks, shopping in town and boat projects.
Tonight we organized the vero beach Marina dinghy holiday caroling event. Yesterday was the Thursday afternoon cruiser early Xmas white elephant party. last night was the free concert in the park. One night the lighted parade of vero was down the street.
Adventures of Scott and sailor 
How far from Orlando are you?
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