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...
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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...
Pelican Bay Excurting
After two weeks anchored here in Pelican Bay, we’ve pretty much explored our little area fully and loved every minute of it. The weather has been outstanding. It hasn’t rained one time, and beautiful fall temps moved in to stay by about the second day we were here. Bugs...
Life at Anchor: Pelican Bay
If I had to sum up life here in Pelican Bay in one word it would be secludedbeauty :). With the only boat dock closer than a 30 minute dinghy ride away being the boat dock at the state park of Cayo Costa (just a couple hundred yards away),...
Day Zero!!! We’re finally cruisers!!!
A dream gives you hope and excitement, and a dream also tortures you. After years and years of dreaming, we woke up at around 6 AM on Saturday October 15th, 2016, stowed the fenders and dock lines, and motored away from the condo at Cortez at 7 AM just...
Mosquito..Bosquito..Shmosquito
If there is one thing you should know about Lindy, it’s that mosquitoes tear her up. Wait…that’s not true…if there’s one thing you should know about Lindy, it’s that she’s awesome. In fact, mosquitoes tearing her up is about 3084 on the list of things you should know about...