6/24 - We had a hectic, busy, hot morning. Bill loaned us his truck so that we could run errands, reprovision and get Sassy groomed. We finished up and pulled out of the marina around 1:30pm and headed out of Gordon Pass to the gulf to take a look. Bill checked the radar again and it showed several major thunderstorms developing in the east and heading west, so we made a quick u-turn back to the protected anchorage in Port Royal. We had major thunderstorms, lightening , and high winds for several hours (glad it was during the daylight hours). Afterwards we had a beautiful full rainbow and a very soothing sunset. Fortunately we had a calm evening and night.
6/25 - Our plan was to head to Ft. Myers, so we got an early start (6:30am & a pretty sunrise!) to beat the afternoon thunderstorms. We lucked out and made it to Pelican Bay/Cayo Costa at Boca Grande Pass around 1:30pm with no storms!! We took the dinghy out to the gulf side so that I could look for treasures (seashells, etc.) No luck, but it was a nice afternoon.
6/26 - Picked up the hook @ 8:00am to head north. We wanted to run on the outside (gulf side) but had the same forecast as yesterday (70% afternoon thunderstorms), so we ran up the ICW. It's always a pretty view, but a very slow ride due to lots of "no wake zones".
Sassy has been very busy on "dolphin watch" for days now. Today she scored, we had several run with us for a while. Our luck held out for us again, we dodged all of the storms and pulled into Marina Jack in downtown Sarasota at 2:45pm. We've always wanted to visit here, so we'll do the "tourista thing" for a few days. We met Gil & Kathie (m/v Lotus) at A&B Marina in Key West and they are letting us use their slip here. What a great couple!! No matter where you are, you can't beat the "boating community".
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