We pulled anchor in Little Shark River early this morning, headed down to Marathon. It was choppy this morning, not bad to travel through but harder to see the crab pots. There were crab pots all over the place, we were travelling behind some other boats, and it looked like ships during the war. Suddenly one would turn one way, another would turn the other way, looked like they were trying to evade submarines or something, but it was actually just the blasted crab pots.
Got down to the bridge that connects the keys, as we went under the bridge we went from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. About noon the chop smoothed out and the travelling was beautiful on the water. We had dolphins travelling with us on and off during the day. Actually one was playing around the boat just after we pulled up the anchor this morning.
Arrived in Marathon early afternoon. We were greeted by several friends, Pete and JoAnne on Tony M, Tom and Linda on Q's End, Cathy and Richard on Rambler and several more. It was fun to meet them again, but I had an audience as I tried to throw a rope over a post off the bow of the boat, not so successfully. The audience seemed to have a lot to say about it. Anyway, the rope did eventually get over the post and we were docked. Scott and Marlene on Nomad are here as well, got here just ahead of us. Went for a walk with them tonight, saw some of the town and visited a Home Depot.
Several of the people here have been here for months and really like it here. They are making reservations to come back next year, and apparently to stay long term you do need to book months in advance.
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