The pictures are from our last leg of the journey to Marathon Keys. We arrived here on November 15th and will be here until mid-January - first of February. Then we will head to the Exumas. We are going home for Christmas and our daughter's college graduation. Mandy is graduating Summa Cum Laude of her class (one in the top seven of her class). We are so proud of her. We have really enjoyed the trip and have met so many other boaters along the way. The picture below was taken on the ICW, just one of the many cool places you see along the way. Next blog will be pictures of the family from Christmas. Jess and I wish everyone a beautiful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We are off-shore from Ft. Myers making our way to the Keys. We are about 5 miles out and the depth was around 10ft.
Anchorage at Little Shark River. This is our last stop before we get to Marathon Key which is about 45 miles away. Little Shark is in the Everglades. When the sun goes down, you do not go outside....NO SEE-UMS. They are tiny tiny tiny bugs that can eat you up!
Our view from the bow. This is looking west to the Florida Bay/Gulf of Mexico. Fifty miles from here is Key West. We see this everyday!
And this is our view from the stern. It is normally clear but when fronts come in off the Gulf and the Florida Bay, it blows the grass in.
Ed Boden, from Houston, came to see us for Thanksgiving. Ed and I worked together at the Wyndham Hotel (now the Omni) in Corpus Christi in 1991. We have been friends all these years and LOVE his visits. We took a three hour cruise in the Florida Bay off the Florida Keys.
