Update for the past few days

Monday 8/18:

We left the marina today. We got gas. I used 19 gallons since I was in Tarinveir FL and I ran the engines most of the time we were traveling. Not to bad. Of course diesel is $6:20 a gallon.

We tried to go to the cruise boat island but they would not let us in. The have a security rule that when a cruise boat is in port no one else is allow on the property. It was the same for the light house. That was on cruise boat property too.

A guy that was fishing for lobster stopped our boat. He had a whole bunch of lobster. I asked how much for a lobster but he never did give me a price. He wanted to trade for them and the thing he needed was beer. We got one lobster tail for one coors light. Not a bad deal and those guys were thirsty because they needed at least 12 beers. So we got 12 lobster tails. We had them last night and they were really good. I had two and I could not finish the last bite.

The lighthouse on the private island owned by Norwegian Cruise Line

Tuesday 8/19:

We sailed to Hoffmans Key. I say we sailed, we tried to sail but the wind was coming directly at us so we motor sailed. Most of the sailing we have done has been motor sailing. I hope to get more pure sailing in soon.

Hoffmans Key has a blue hole.So after we search for the trail for a little while we found one that lead us up to the blue whole. Looking at in reminded me of the cisterns down in Mexico. But here the water is salt water. Max didn’t seem to care, he jumped right in and swam around for a while. I also took a swim.

We saw three boats yesterday. There is not a lot happening out here. Two of the boats were way out in the ocean. The other boat passed right by us and waved but that was all the contact we had with the world. We saw a lot of turtles and rays and the dogs are having a great time running around the beaches. So its not that bad around here. 

  

Wednesday 8/20:

We went to Flo’s Conch House. It’s own by a guy named Chester. He and a woman live on the island all by themselves. We had two beer and then we asked abut the rum punch. I don’t know what he does to make the rum punch but it’s good stuff. It has some pineapple in it and some kind of red drink. but it is mixed into a kind of slush and it real cools you down on a hot day. We also tried the conch fritters. They know how to do conch down here. We had some in Fort Landerdale and they we terrible. but Flo’s restored conch fritter to my menu.

Chester, the owner serving up some beers for us

Thursday 8/21:

We went to Bird Key. It has an abandoned village and mansion on it. It was cool looking through the mansion. It had a pool out front and a court yard in the back. It was laid out like a spanish house, with bedrooms in the main part then other bedrooms around the court yard.  It was built in the 1940's by Francis Francis, heir to the Standard Oil Company.  I'm not sure how long ago it was abandoned but it is currently for sale for $8.9M.