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We’re in Sarasota at our favorite marina, Marina Jack’s. It’s right downtown so you can walk to almost everything, although we have our car here too.We cruised here through the bays and ICW past lots of beautiful homes on the ICW side, stopping to anc…

We stayed on Sanibel Island with some Illinois friends, that have rented a house on the island for the month of February. It’s quite a nice 3 bedroom house and it was good to have a really big shower last night, compared to the rather small showers on…

We’re back at Marco Island, after crossing 100 miles of open Gulf waters today. It was a little too lumpy (confused 3 to 4 ft. waves) this morning and then OK this afternoon. We saw dolphins, but none decided to surf our wake.Coming in to Marco Islan…

Endangered Species Expedition!We went for a drive down the Keys to see if we could see some Key Deer, and to get one more lobster reuben sandwich from the ParrotDise Grill on Little Torch Key. Key Deer are a very endangered species that live only in th…

It was a nice day out in the Atlantic so we cruised out to Sombrero Reef nearby Marathon, hoping that the murky waters had cleared up. There are about 30 mooring balls over the coral reef where you can just pick out a mooring ball and tie your boat u…

Manatee!There was a manatee swimming around the marina today. It just cruised very slowly under the docks and between the boats and looked like a big gray inflatable dinghy tube.The only time it came up is to breathe and then it only sticks it’s nose …

SHARK!…. well, a teeny baby shark anyhow. Along with a bunch of Creval Jacks and other small fish, I caught this baby Hammerhead Shark, so it’s another post of fish and sunsets today. It’s always fun to fish off the aft deck because you never know …

The Google computers that run blogspot with this blog have been having a problem running the videos. All the blogs are reporting “video unavailable” for a week or so. If you tried to watch my scuba videos, just try in the next few days.We’re still ju…

I went scuba diving today out at Sombrero Reef, which is a nearby marine sanctuary coral reef. I went on a dive boat, of which there are many around here, because a fellow Hatteras Owner’s Forum member, Pat Murphy, recommended it. There has been poo…

Just enjoying Marathon Key today. It was 82 degrees and sunny all day.This is our lunchtime view from the aft deck, right into the Atlantic Ocean, with beautiful turquoise water, Ospreys and Pelicans fishing in the flats, and constant little fish jump…