It is a week ago Monday that I had chemo number two. I had planned on writing this sooner but I was unable to sit at the computer very long because of really bad joint pain. I had the same thing happen for a couple of days after chemo number one but this time it lasted […]
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Blackwater Sound – Anchorage
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” ―Robert Henri
We’re moving up the Keys. Our day started in Islamorada enjoying our coffee on the flybridge…our favorite way to begin our day. Our next stop was Key Largo. We anchored in Blackwater Sound and took our dingy through the cut to Largo Sound and John Pennekamp State Park. Pennekamp offers snorkeling trips and glass bottom boat rides out to the reefs, but the park also provides mooring balls at the best sights so private boats can stop and snorkel. We’d love to visit some of those sights one day, but the Atlantic was a little too rough and the water a little too chilly for us today.
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park was established in 1963 as the first undersea park in the United States. The park and the adjacent Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, it covers approximately 178 nautical square miles of coral reefs, seagrass beds and mangrove swamps. It extends 3 miles into the Atlantic Ocean and is approximately 25 miles in length. These areas were established to protect and preserve a portion of the only living coral reef in the continental United States.
We wandered around the park and went through the visitor center and aquarium, it would be a great place to visit in a RV but we both were glad we anchored in Blackwater Sound instead of staying in the park. After visiting the park we did a little more exploring in the sound before we stopped at Sundowners for an afternoon snack. We spent the evening enjoying a nice dinner onboard with a great view of the sunset. It felt wonderful to be swinging on the hook.
Our morning view
The Marvin D. Adams Waterway that runs between Blackwater Sound and Largo Sound
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park
A few of the tanks at the aquarium
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Barley Basin – Anchorage
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
We’ve had a hard time deciding whether we’ll go to the Bahamas or not…one day we say yes and the next we are thinking we’ll just move up the coast enjoying some of the places on the east coast of Florida we haven’t visited before. Our apprehension about going has more to do with the weather than anything else. We’d love to meet our friends in the Exumas to explore the beautiful beaches, small cays and fantastic snorkeling spots, but we really don’t want to spend six weeks or more just hiding out on our boat from high winds and rain as cold fronts move through that area of the Bahamas. It’s been a very strange winter here in the Keys and in the Bahamas. Cold fronts normally don’t come this far south in the Keys and they seldom go as far south as Georgetown in the Exumas…it’s the reason cruisers enjoy spending winters in these spots. But this year has been an exception…every few days a strong front has moved through, dropping the temperature, large amounts of rain and creating heavy winds.
One of the best things about cruising is not having a set plan. We don’t have a schedule we need to keep and we don’t have anywhere we really need to be…we are very flexible. We left Marathon this morning and have decided to slowly move north. Our car is in Jacksonville…so at the moment our plan is to see a few new places and a few favorite places along the coast as we make our way back to our car. Unlike many of our friends who are hiding out from the cold winter of the north, the weather at our home is about the same as it is in southern Florida…so we’ve decided to head home a little early to enjoy a visit with our little ones and maybe spend a few days cruising on Texas Pearl.
In early spring we’ll be back on The Pearl and head north. Our plan is to spend the summer in New England, Maine and maybe even make it to Nova Scotia…but it’s just a loose plan and by no means carved in stone. We can change our minds at any time and that’s just another reason we enjoy cruising…the freedom to go where we want, do what makes us happy and to be able to change our minds at anytime.
Dinner with a view and fun friends at Lorelei’s
Nordhavn Exumas Abacos Bahamas trawler Caribbean Pickwick Boat dogs
Memphis Downtown
We are not usually “Marina” people but here we are on a mooring, Marigot Bay St. Lucia. Very nice facility.
