Thursday, March 3, 2011

Moved up the Keys to islamorada


















































































Our friend Jeff Gibson (Our Insurance Agent) came down for a night with Michelle we all went out to Sloppy Joes after we watched sunset at Mallory Square. We had a good time sitting by some girls from Pensacola. Karen & Michelle went upon the stage with the band dancing several times.

We went to Miami for a weekend to see the Miami Boat Show. They claim it is the biggest boat
show in the world. It is in four different places. You park and ride shuttle buses. We stayed at 6060 a hotel condo the unites are individually owned. We met our good friends that live in KW Eddie Gonzales & Hillary Porcha. We all went out to eat at Shula's Steakhouse for Karen's Birthday.

Eddie has a Henriquie 42 Sportsfish. He took us out fishing twice. We caught over 70 fish each time. He has been fishing all his life and he has it down. What a nice boat to go fishing on. Their friends from Louisiana Wayne & Debra and Eddies accounting manager Sarah went with us & are in the pics. We're about ready to head in from the North side of the Marquesses this Lobster boat in the pic comes up to us and offers us a bucket of Lobsters for some bottled water. They have been out for eight days.

We finally left KW. Miss it already. We had a nice run in the Hawk Channel from Key West to Marathon. Where we crossed under the Seven Mile Bridge into the Gulf of Mexico and back into the Atlantic ICW. Man is it shallow. Depths on the chart said 5 or 6 feet but at high tide it was like 4 or 5 feet. The water is so clear it looks like it's about 1 foot deep. We saw 5 Sea Turtles and traveled 78 miles in one day. Due to the fact that a front was coming through and it's hard to find shelter on this side of the Keys to anchor. So we decided to make the trip in 1 day instead of 2.
We're at Plantation Yacht Harbor at Founder's Park. The marina is very nice. It has a swimming pool, tennis court, baseball field, basketball court, soccer field, dog park, beach and brand new gas BBQ pits under a large covered patio.
Just so happens we're docked next to the Brian the hot dog man. He takes his floating houseboat out to Snake Creek Sand Bar on the Atlantic side and sells hot dogs, hamburgers, fries and souvenir cup for $3 which includes a free beer. There will be about 200 boats pull up to the sand bar on a nice day. This will be a nice dingy trip for us when we get a nice weekend day.

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