We left South Beach this morning at 8:30 for our 22 mile run to Dania Beach Marina. In hindsight we should have left 10 minutes earlier since we did miss the first bridge opening by a few minutes and had to wait 1/2 hour for the next one. Most of the…
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South Beach, FL – 3/11/11
Our last full day in South Beach so we decided to take the South Beach Local again and go to the ocean. As we were leaving the yacht club we noticed the weather forecaster hanging around. According to his forecast … should be a nice day. As we were…
South Beach, FL – 3/10/11
Having decided to spend 2 more days here so we could see a few things, we decided to catch up our laundry before noon so we could take off touring. About the time it was finished the sky turned dark and we had a really hard rain storn that lasted a co…
South Beach, FL – 3/9/11
Before we left Boco Chita Ricki took a picture of the placard telling the history of the island and how it ended up as a National Park. This was absolutely one of the prettiest place that we have been so far on the adventure. As we were leaving she t…
Boco Chita Key, FL – 3/8/11
We pulled our anchor this morning at 8:30 a.m. and followed Moor $tuff out of this beautiful anchorage. The bottom was sand and grass so we did have to wash down the anchor as it came up on the windlass. Our destination today was South Beach in Miami…
Boggy Key Anchorage – 3/7/11
We pulled out of Burdine’s Marina at 8:30 a.m. in order to meet Skip & Barb on Hawk Channel in an hour at Key Colony. They were also leaving at the same time in order to go to a marina for a pump out then on to Hawk Channel. We traveled about 2 hou…
Marathon, FL – 3/6/11
Late this morning as I was working on computer stuff in the salon and Ricki was still in the stateroom, I heard someone outside the boat call our name. Floating behind our boat in their dinghy was John and Carol Sagel (Seas2Day) that are currently on a…
Marathon, FL – 3/5/11
Another lazy day in paradise. We did decide to walk around the marina after sleeping in late and the first sight we saw was this red boat that looked homemade.Then we saw this big manatee floating around in a boat slip.Another obvious liveaboard with t…
Marathon, FL – 3/4/11
This morning I started thinking of our options about having to leave Sombrero Resort since our slip had been reserved beginning today for the weekend along with 3 condo apartments. I checked with the harbor master to make sure he had not gotten a cance…
Marathon, FL – 3/3/11 (day 34)
Early today I checked with the dockmaster about the status of our slip, whether or not the other boat that had reserved it starting Friday was indeed going to show up. Apparently they were coming down from Naples and towing a sport fish boat and stayi…
