Marathon Key Days (Days 234-237)

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 island near the marina so I was able to watch from the comfort of the boat.

We did our usual dinghy exploration.

This time we went exploring with Scott and Amy from “Who Dat?”

We had a terrific lunch at the Sunset Grille.

Then we motored through Boot harbor and  Sisters Creek out to beautiful Sombrero Beach.

We went for a bike ride out on the old Seven Mile Bridge to Historic Pigeon Key.

This was the base of operations for railroad workers erecting and later operating the final installment of Henry M. Flagler's Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway.

Our Journey

”Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears, like chaff swirling from a threshing floor, like smoke escaping through a window.“

‭‭Hosea‬ ‭13‬:‭3‬ ‭NIV‬‬