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Boca Chica-Friends from Virginia Days visit (Days 244-250)

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  We were so excited to have our friend Ellen and her boyfriend Louie come down from Northern Florida for a visit. Ellen’s daughter Blair was Jackie’s best friend. We were able to offer them a beautiful sunset nearly every night! We enjoyed dipping our toes in the water at the beach while Mike entertained us with his kiteboard antics. Mike and Ellen took the Brownie out looking for lobster in the harbor. No luck though. We spent a day in Key West together with lunch at the Wharf, and walking about town.  We stopped in the Key West Museum of Art and History at the Custom House. It has a fabulous exhibit on the railway and a local artist, Santiago’s sketches for Earnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.  We also had drinks at several popular spots.  We stopped at the Southernmost Point Brew Pub, Key West First Legal Rum Distillery, Rick’s, Captain Tony’s (Hemingway’s hangout) and finished with happy hour at the Mansion. Needless to say, our “Duvall Crawl” left us a little giddy. After
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Key West/ Boca Chica First Days(Days 238-243)

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We finally arrived in Key West and will be here for a month.  We are expecting quite a few visitors while we are here. The entrance to the harbor was straight and deep Thanks to the Navy carving out the coral for building the runway. These Tarpon were in our slip to greet us.  They are around 4-5 feet long and continued as regular visitors. We headed over to the beach side bar to check it out. And enjoyed our first spectacular sunset. We walked back to the boat and the sky remained beautiful.  Looks as if our daily decision will be sunset from the beach or the boat? We rode our bicycles into Key West on our first full day here. We went to Divers Direct to learn about the Brownie Air system for diving then we went to lunch at the Wharf.  This is where we saw our first Manatee since being in Florida. The Tarpon were also numerous and quite active feeding on the fishermen’s cleaning remains. We were thrilled and honored to greet our friends Jerry and Denice on Nevadatude at the dock where
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Marathon Key Days (Days 234-237)

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This is a long awaited day.  We are crossing the straights of florida to get to the Florida Keys. We needed a weather window with calm seas. And we got them.  We also got fog! It was a bit scary. I sat out on the bow with headphones. As the fog lifted we began to see a “fog-bow” As the sun came up it was shining through the fog water droplets to form a bow similar to a rain bow. This was some of the calmest waters we have been on on the entire loop and we’re in wide open water. Even our cell phones didn’t work out here. This was the view from our slip at Marlin Bay in Marathon. We saw our first iguanas. The birds were quite at home in the pool area. A highlight of theirs stop was meeting up with our friends from our first year on the loop; Dan and Deb from “Razor’s Edge.” They are Gold Loopers now and came back down to Florida. It was so much fun to see them! They even showed us the ropes for playing daily pickle ball at the community courts there. Mike was able to kite board from an i
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Shark River (Day 233)

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Today we went to Shark’s River Anchorage in the Everglades.  We were the only boat there when we arrived. These two alligator beers are the only two gators we saw. We decided to motor around in the dinghy.  The water was really peaceful. There are lots of trails and turns to explore.  Having a chart plotter in the dinghy was truly a life saver on this exploration.  One could easily get lost and not find your way back to the boat. This video clip shows a little bit of our experience. Mike did a terrific job of navigating. And we found our way back to our anchorage. We had dinner on the bow and watched porpoises swim around the boat as the sun set. Our Journey ”I will wait at the fords in the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”“ ‭‭2 Samuel‬ ‭15‬:‭28‬ ‭NIV‬‬  
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