It been a couple days since a post because its been a couple of crazy days.
The morning we head out to Marco Island we motor out into the biggest, nastiest (for us) waves we have incountered in our boat. It was remnants of tropical storm Colin and we would not have went out if we knew it was that bad. We must have misinterpreted our weather apps. We had life jackets on (and the dog), harnessed ourselves to the boat, and prayed for our lives for four hours. Not cool.
After having to do an emergency fuel tank refill in eye level breaking waves right before traversing the rock lined inlet to Naples we were treated to beautiful rustic Florida canals that winded their way down to Marco Island. We skipped right over this and went to Goodland, FL. We were drawn to goodland's laid back small town fishing atmosphere. The coon key marina was very friendly and accommodating as we provisioned in the morning.
Friday at about 10:30, and after triple checking every weather app we have we struck out towards the keys. We covered 80 miles in 17.5 hours before we decided we should throw out the anchor. If we knew more about traversing the waterways in the keys we may have attempted it in the dark but the small channels you have to slip through do not look fun at 3am. Nor was it comforting picking up a crab pot line at 1am. We now have a bent prop to get fixed before we head back north.
The sun woke us at about 7am and off we went. Another 30 miles is all that seperated us from Plantation key.
Finally after 13 days of traveling we arrived at our marina. Our first visit to the keys!
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