Short and Sweet

My emotions are mixed having lost Juan. We had some nice days, some with actual sailing, but mostly motoring through fog and frigging 800 million crab traps. I'm sorry but the Everglade coastline is as awful as I've seen and the waters around were shoal-y. We followed one sailboat as he had a short cut and was extremely confident. Alas, he found the shallow water, so we went back to our original plan. Each day the temperatures increased and now I sit with a slight sheen of perspiration, the lows are above 65 degrees.

Sitting at anchorage in Marathon, got some groceries, waiting on weather.


Naples City Dock, nice place lots of fishing charters, sail charters and plenty brown pelicans living easy

Anchored in Carprice Pass, windy, sunny Sunday with lots of boat traffic

A lovely male Frigate Bird, see his red throat?

Best party boat on the water!

A glorious sunset, all boats coming back in from the gulf stopped to watch him depart for the night. We watched for the green flash, but it didn't appear

Next morning fog, we had fog off and on for 2 more days

on crab trap watch

tried to catch the fog bow, hard to do.

An adventure with many rewards: green turtles, spotted eagle rays, sponges sighted in the cool clear water and now a safe anchorage and one huge loss, too huge to talk about. My family and friends still in the frozen north, Canada, Texas, Pensacola, Tarpon Springs, this too shall pass, we send you our warmest.