Leaving Marathon

We were able to get the anchor and deck lights replaced without too much trouble. Looks like me up there. NOT. He was about 30 years younger than me and made it look so easy.

The weather forecast called for 3 pretty nice days before the wind picked up again, so we headed under the 7 mile bridge and turned East toward Key Largo. When we checked the weather again they'd changed the forecast so we decided to go further than orginally planned. We anchored out at Matacuba Bight which was a nice large anchorage. The only problem, it didn't have much protection from the wind for the direction from which it was coming. Thankfully the wind shifted a little during the night and gave us better protection and a much better ride at anchor. The next morning we left about 9:00am in hopes of getting to Plantation Marina on Plantation Key before the wind got too strong. The wind was from our back, so the ride was pretty good. As you can see Marilyn likes to get really clost to the marks. I told her not to get too close or she'd scare the birds. We'll you can see what happened. We also got pretty close to one of the crab pots that are scattered everywhere. By the time that we got to Plantation Marina at about noon, the wind had picked up to between 15 and 20. We tied up to the dock with the help of marina staff. We really appreciated their help since the wind wanted to blow us off the dock. As we settled in, the wind picked up to between 25 and 30 with scattered thunderstorms. Needless to say we were happy to be tied to a dock inside the breakwater rather than out somewhere rolling around on the anchor. The is Easter week-end, so the marina is pretty busy and we assume it will be until at least Monday. Just like the week-ends at home. The weather and wind is suppose to get better after the week-end, so we think we'll stay here until at least Tuesday. Not sure what we're going to do for Easter, but I hope everyone has a good one.