It’s Thursday morning, we have enjoyed Islamorada quite a bit since we arrived Tuesday evening, we found laundry, fuel, grocery, hardware store and of course Lorelei’s beach cabana restaurant. Its fun to listen to live music at night, we can hear it from the boat. We have slept well in the comfortable anchorage but it’s time to move on. We have developed a plan for the gulfstream crossing to the Bahamas.
This evening at 5:30 we will weigh our anchors and head North 7 miles to Snake Creek, go thru the draw bridge and into Hawks Channel and begin our Eastward passage to Bimini. The first islands of the Bahamas are about 90 miles from here, 54 miles due East of Miami, we expect to cover it in 15 to 16 hours. To arrive in daylight we have opted to make most of the passage at night. We studied weather, waves and predictions to death, we even listened to Chris Parker’s SSB radio net this morning at 6:30, he said it was a go as well. I think we will be able to sail instead of motor across today. Tomorrow it lays down possibly too much tt sail so we will make a go of it tonight.
Jono has been fishing off the boat quite a bit here in Islamorada, but he’s only seeing small perch like fish. In Cayo Costa he caught 2 speckled trout, one was too small and the other that was nice enough to keep flopped and got away so nothing to eat yet…
There probably won’t be much posting for a while until we get close to Wifi in the Bahamas. We will leave you with some pictures from the past few days.
