Early departure

There really was no reason for our departure about 15 minutes earlier than usual this morning except that we were ready and we mentioned how flat the water was.  I took a nice picture of the sun coming up behind us as we left Boca Chita.  You'll have to check out Facebook for that one.  That did not last long however when we saw rain moving in.  There was actually a worse squall than this behind us.  It did eventually catch up to us, but did not end up being as bad as it looked as far as rain, but it did bring some increase winds which kicked up the waves in Biscayne Bay.  Today was a much more uncomfortable roll on the stern quarter than yesterday and would call this more of a moderate chop in Biscayne Bay.
The other bays were better, especially the farther we kept going.  We dropped anchor in Tarpon Basin just before 1:00 p.m.  We are tucked into the northeast corner this time trying to get wind protection as they were higher than originally predicted today.
Just as I am writing this, friends that we saw in Ft. Lauderdale on "Byrd Ketcher" are attempting to raft up with other new arrivals on "Sofia Jean", whom we got introduced to by Kurt and Sharon on "Byrd Ketcher" while in Ft. Lauderdale, here in the same vicinity.