Marathon has been great, with generally fantastic weather. Most days in high 70's or low 80's with lots of strong sun. Sheila would have liked it a bit cooler.
Since the last blog entry we've done a day trip by bus to Key West (local teenager pet sat for Katie & Riggs), taken several bike rides including a neat one down the old 7-mile bridge to Pigeon Key, made several dinghy trips to Sombrero Beach for dog play (see above), taken dozens of walks through the park next to the marina, and generally enjoyed Summer in Winter.
We had a nice surprise a few days ago when we were dinghying in to the marina. A fellow on the outer dock sees our Maine registration and waves us over and as we get close we see its someone we know from Castine. Dale Young is a mason and has worked on half the houses in town. We're pretty sure he built the chimney in our house (in 1982). He had towed his sailboat down from Maine, launched it in Flamingo (bottom of Everglades) and sailed it to the Keys and into Marathon. Since then he's paid to stay here a month and is settled in. We had him over for supper 2 nights ago and had fun swapping stories.
Tomorrow we hope to anchor off remote Cape Sable in the Everglades, then Monday cruise up the western edge of the Everglades to Camp Lulu Key, and on Tuesday make for Naples FL. We should be at our next goal, Sarasota, by Thursday or Friday, and we'll stay there a week or so. While we're in the Everglades we'll probably lose contact with the cell phone system (no Internet!) but our SPOT tracker should still function.
The adventure continues!
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