Tuesday we left Dinner Key for Key Largo. What a day! We had a nice sail from Coconut Grove down to Angelfish Creek at the east end of Key Largo. You can see our boat anchored in the mangroves right off the Anglefish Creek channel. Mangroves are wonderful plants for dampening wake either from wind or boats. A number of large sportfishing boats plowed through the channel between where I took this picture and our boat. Almost no rocking.
We spent three nights at this spot. One night to enjoy the scenery and two to wait the passage of a cold front. This area isn't as isolated as it looks in the picture. On the otherside of Angelfish Creek is the community of Ocean Reef Florida. I took a few dinghy rides past some very exclusive waterfront real estate. I thought it might look tacky to take pictures so I didn't. We were anchored fairly near the jet strip and saw a number of Gulfstream Jets touch down. Not too many people out and about around the houses however.
Today we left for a motor sail down to Holiday Isle Marina. We are motor sailing in the Hawk Channel between the keys and a reef. Note the color of the water. I was concerned about anchoring out in the fairly exposed spots south of the Keys and this was the only marina who offered any encouragement getting in with a sailboat. Well we just about didn't make it over the bar in mid to falling tide touching a couple of times. We're glad we got in, but it could have been a long time waiting for a rising tide.
Tomorrow we leave in 3/4 and rising tide for what should be a sleigh ride sail to Marathon.
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