After a very short sail from Naples, we arrived at Marco Island through Capri Pass. From reviews we read, we decided to go through canals to the interior of Marco to a place called Smokehouse Bay for anchoring. The charts showed some shallow areas on the way in, but...
Articles for November 2016
Fun Days with Family
After a couple of days of Lindy and I wandering around Naples, my cousin Christopher came by and picked us up for our first night away from Holiday. He lives just a short drive away in town, so we hopped in for our first car ride in 4 weeks....
Old Naples
Ahhhh Naples…manicured yards, manicured medians, manicured everything…big beautiful houses, exotic sports cars, millions of dollars yachts…beautiful beach, lots of nice restaurants, balmy weather…crazy drivers on the road, lots of boat traffic in the main channel, and you could go broke eating out or trying to buy most anything here!...
Fort Myers Bizzeach
After a nice couple of days anchored at St James City and 19 days into our new life aboard Holiday, we pulled up anchor and motored down the ICW toward Fort Myers Beach. We traversed the infamous “Miserable Mile” where currents are supposed to make it difficult to stay...
St James City
After a surplus of being off the grid at Pelican Bay, we were ready to see a few more people, restaurants, stores, etc. Not to mention our vast fresh food offerings that we started with had dwindled to one potato, one tomato, an onion, and a lime. We decided...
(mis)Adventures in Fishing
I can’t move on from our time at Pelican Bay without going into my (mis)adventures in fishing. I mean…cruisers are supposed to be able to put dinner on the table night after night with just a few casts of the rod right? Not just cruisers either. As a man...
Cabbage Key
The wind was usually above 10 knots during our stay at Pelican Bay making longer dinghy trips through moderate chop a little long and wettish. So, we tended to hang out in our general vicinity more often. As our trash bags started to pile up and dinghy gas started...