Boot Key Harbor

Last Saturday, having completed the boat projects, we moved off the dock to a mooring ball in Boot Key Harbor. We love the new neighborhood!

Both the inverter/charger and new hi-amp alternator make living on the hook more practical. A half hour of engine time at idle restores the house bank and makes hot water for the day. Our solar panel maintains a full charge during the day. So life is good - electrically speaking.

We bought a basil plant for the cockpit and have been enjoying fresh basil in our cooking. We made an eggplant parm the other day which is about as complicated as anything we want to do in our small galley.

We went down to Key West by bus the other day and checked out the marina spot we had reserved there. We concluded that Key West was a nice place to visit, but we don't want to live there. So we will maintain Marathon as a base and take a few overnight trips to other anchorages by boat, and a few more bus trips to Key West. We will head up the West Coast of Florida sometime in February.