Final post from First (and only) Mate Karen

We left Marathon on 4/14 for Plantation Key Marina on Islamorada.  The water was very flat and we made it in 5 hours.
 

 

 

One last pic from Marathon....

 



A big storm blew seagrass into the marina.  It made a supercool design on the water.

Islamorada

 

 



The boat next to us had a cat which is unusual.
The cat never leaves the boat.



This is the view from the Zane Grey Lounge on the second floor of the World Wide Sportsman store. This is an extremely fancy fishing store with a really nice bar!
It even has a full-size replica of Pilar Hemingway's boat that is still in Cuba.

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CFPageC?storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&appID=94&tab=3&storeID=21

The pink boat was made to look like a car and said "Nauti Limo".

 Our friend Jim joined us on the 17th and we went to Ma's Fish Camp for dinner. 
They have a dessert called Hummingbird Cake that I've been obsessed with since we had it last year. 

 

 

I flew to CA on Friday the 18th and John and Jim headed back to Miami. 

They went out to the reef to snorkel then anchored at Jew Point near Key Largo.

 

 

 

I have no idea how they got there from the Atlantic.  Captain Scruffy will have to explain. 

Here is Jim chillaxing...

We had a really fun time! Maybe we'll go to the Bahamas next year. :-)   



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