We found a weather window and left the Florida Keys Sunday morning, stopping 10 minutes later to fill the diesel tanks and empty the holding tank. Dodging crab pots we followed the chart plotter to our first stop in the Little Shark river - much to the delight of a few million no-see-ums. The evening was spent inside with the windows shut. Not a hardship in the cool (64 degree) evening.
Little Shark:
Day two was our longest passage to Marco Island where we had a protected bay and no bugs.
Sunset with libations at Marco:
On day three we re-entered the intercoastal waterway and within minutes we were joined by dolphins. They stayed with us for almost a half hour giving me time to realize I should get a picture or three.
While trying to reason out why we were blessed with such dolphin attention it finally occurred to me that our boat developed a good size wave at our cruising speed of nine miles per hour. Plenty of wave to play in at an easy speed for a dolphin. As if to prove my point we were joined by several other pods throughout the afternoon. The day goes fast watching wild dolphins play.
We are now in Sarasota and will spend the next month here. We are as far north as we want to be for this time of year.
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