Sunday 5/9/10 At 8:40am we cast off the dock lines and headed out of Key West. Sometime during Saturday night a couple of cruise ships docked at Mallory Square. Fortunately we didn't have to deal with all those tourists swarming off of the ships!
Unlike Miami, we were able to cruise right past these big boys without intervention from the water patrol.
Our destination today... the Little Shark River in the Everglades way down in southern Florida. For most of the day we were out there alone. We didn't see another boat until almost to our destination. A distance of 78 miles. We motored up the river a couple of miles to a spot picked from a cruising guide. It took two tries to get the anchor to dig into the hard bottom but then it was set. The guide warned of mosquitos at this anchorage so we were prepared. What we weren't prepared for was the huge flies and the smaller than small biting noseeums. Viscious! Fortunately they didn't come out till later so we did get to enjoy some time with a cold one watching the sea turtles and tarpon play in the water around Tourist. A beautiful anchorage that we shared only with the bugs! Check out the Everglades at (
www.nps.gov/ever).
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