Happy monumental Birthday to Ray's sister Gloria today! We won't mention any numbers.
Ray got up quite early this morning to watch for the earliest light to see by to get out of Little Shark River. Why he thought he needed to open up the screen door and go outside to check that is yet to be understood. In those few moments the mosquitos came in and buzzed around my head in bed. Not the best of alarm clocks in my opinion, but it got me up.
I had the idea of each of us setting up a fan, one on the bow, one at the helm to try to keep the bugs away from us long enough to get out of this infested Everglade swamp. It worked well for me. Ray did not think it was worth the effort for himself on the bow. He just drenched himself in insect repellent and went for it. I don't know if both of those things worked, or it just wasn't as bad as last evening, but Ray got both anchors up and we were out of there by 6:30 a.m.
We wanted to get down to Marathon as soon as possible as winds were predicted to increase late. What exactly late meant, we had no idea.
Today's seas were much calmer than yesterday. Maybe a one foot chop on the quarter stern, which again made the auto pilot go crazy, but the following sea gave us good speed. We again gave up on the auto pilot steering, this time more because of the tremendous amount of crab pots.
At about noon we were traversing under the seven mile bridge, and by 1:30 p.m. we were in our same 'ole slip, B15, at Sombrero Marina Dockside. Of course our welcoming committee of friends waiting for us to get here was on the dock to greet us and help us get tied up. Thanks to the generosity of Patty and Bill, we had a delicious spaghetti dinner to enjoy along with Cindy and Jeff who arrived just before we did. They were supposed to be here yesterday, but they got stuck in much worse weather than we did.
So we are here for at least the winter. No travels to blog unless we get the fortune of diving and or fishing on a nice day. Will try to let everyone know when there is something noteworthy.
Have a great time in Marathon.
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