Florida Keys

Stats - Will update on the next blog, but roughly another 400 miles.

So sorry for the delay in posting.  I know that there are a at least a few of you who enjoy reading this.  So let me see if I can recap what has been happening over the last several (10) days.

We left out of Pink Shell marina headed for Marco Island.  We had a good cruising day with Jim and Sarah Sutliff and arrived at Marco Island late morning.  We cooked up some dogs on the grill while waiting for the marina to make room for us to fuel up.  After fueling up we met up with Mike and Gloria from Four Seasons marina.  They picked us up and we had a drinks and snack at the local Snook Inn.  It was great seeing them again.  Had bacon and eggs on the boat then we dropped the dinghy in and went on a little cruise.  Beached it and went walking on the shell beach for a while then cruised through the Yacht Club.  We cooked up dinner on the boat and had a good day. 

We left early on Wednesday heading for Key West.  Could not have asked for better weather or a better cruise day.  Water was beautiful and we made the 100 mile run to Key West without issue.  After arriving at the Galleon Marina, we went to the the pool and relaxed.  We went out for dinner and met up later with Jeanie and Jack Halenkamp and Rick and Sarah who also were in Key West.  On Thursday my brother Don arrived and we did a little bar hopping.  The usual places, Hog's Breath Saloon , Irish Kevin's, Margaritaville, you get the idea.  We had an easy dinner with everyone and headed back to the boat.

 Entering Key West

Starting the cruise to the 1st way point

 Beautiful cruising day to Key West

Some bar in Key West

Sarah choking the chicken (Cluck Norris)

Boyle brothers with Dublin in the back ground

 Cluck's cousin

 Another cruising picture

 Galleon Marina Key West.

Our plan was to head to Marathon on Saturday, but the winds and waves were predicted to get very bad.  Plan B was activated and we ended up leaving at 7:30 on Friday morning to beat the weather.  Jim and Sarah left as they were taking the Express back to Ft Myers.  Was a little rough going to Marathon, but we were able to get into the marina a day earlier, but it was tough docking with 20 - 30 mph hour winds. 

Feels like I am at least partially caught up now.  Will still have to fill you in on Marathon and Key Largo, but enough for tonight.  Promise I will catch up on the blog over the next couple of days.