We arrived in Marathon after our mostly motor over Florida Bay from Cape Sable and headed for Boot Key Harbor. The mooring field there is huge (over 200 spots), and we have read it’s really neat, but we also read that it is so popular there can be a...
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Cape Sable and sail to the Keys!
During our stay in the Little Shark River, we had been listening to the weather daily. The wind had been coming from the south east (the direction we were wanting to go. not good for sailing), and we were watching for the day that the winds switched back to...
Little Shark River
Our next 30 mile jump down through the Everglades after Indian Key Pass was to Little Shark River. We left early in the morning and had our best day of sailing on the trip so far. We raised the sails and shut off the diesel just after exiting Indian...
Sunsets of the Everglades
Eight nights in the Everglades and eight beautiful sunsets. 3 nights at Indian Key Pass: 4 nights in the Little Shark, quiet and serene: 1 night at Cape Sable in the open Gulf:
10,000 Islands
On Thanksgiving day after finally successfully solving our diesel over heating issue (found an exhaust hose that was clogged and changed it out), we set out from Marco Island to head for the 10,000 Islands and some “off the grid” anchoring in and around the Florida Everglades. I’ve planned...
Marco Island’s Smokehouse Bay
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...
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!...