Hernando Beach

We made it to my friends house that is on the canal in Hernando Beach and they are being amazing and letting us keep our boat on their dock while we go home for Christmas.  We head out tomorrow and we'll be back on January 6th to start our treck down to Puerto Rico.  It's been really interesting coming up the Gulf Coast.  We've never really made it over on this side with our boat.  It is so totally different than the east side of Florida.  I'm flying back to Colorado in the morning and Wes has rented a car and will be driving (with Taylor) back to Delaware to get his truck and then driving the truck back to Colorado.  I don't think he is looking forward to it at all.  

We had dinner tonight with three other couples and they are all from Loveland and have a place down here.  It's crazy how many folks from Colorado have second homes in Florida, but I can certainly see why.  It's December and it's been 70 here.  I'm looking forward to seeing the kids and grandkids but not the 30 degree weather.

We will be posting again once we get back on the boat.  

        YES MORE DOLPHINS!!!

Clearwater Florida

 We made it to Clearwater Florida today. We are at the Clearwater Marina today and tomorrow. Its a nice marina right in the middle of town. They have a kind of Pearl St (Boulder Co) right near the marina. The street is roped off and they have a lot of restertants on the main drag. They have dualing pianos at one place we may check out tomorrow.

 After that we are off to Hernando Beach where we are going to leave the boat while we go home for Christmas. The nice thing about the gulf is we can go out into the gulf and there is hardly any difference between that and the intracoastal as far as waves are concerned. We continue to see a lot of dolphins and we have also seen a lot of rays breaching the water. They really jump high but I don't think I will ever get a picture of one. They seem to just pop up when you aren't expecting them to.

 

 

These are some manatees that we saw the other day. Kind of hard to see but there were 3 of them.