Florida Everglades

The picture is of Larry bailing out the dinghy after an all day rain on Sunday.

Tuesday we celebrated my birthday with Mike and Diane M. from Express Mail. It was one year ago that we were in New Found Harbor with them and ate at Parrotdise Restaurant for my birthday last year. Unfortunately we have parted after only two nights together. They are going to Key West and meeting up with friends and we are going North on the West coast of Florida to meet up with friends. We will meet again on the return trip. That is what is so great about this life. You know you will meet again.

We left early on Wednesday morning from Boot Key Harbor and anchored outside of Shark River on the Gulf side. It was a quiet night with very little wind and waves. We were anchored with 6 sail boats, 2 catamarans and 2 power boats.

We left early this morning and traveled another 36 miles to Indian Key. This is the beginning of the channel to Everglades City, which we plan to visit on the way back to Marathon. We went to shore on Indian Key to explore by dinghy after we anchored. The sand is like fine white sugar and the beach is covered with many shells. The air wasn't warm enough and the wave action was to heavy to snorkel but it would on a calm day be a good place to do so.

Tomorrow we will get an early start and go just above Naples and drop the hook for the night. Our plan is to be in Charlotte Harbor for Saturday.