The days have gotten quite a bit warmer and the winds aren’t blowing hard quite as often either. We’re staying pretty close to the marina in case some unknown buyer wants to look at the boat.
Pat and Judy Sorenson from Denver will be arriving on Thursday. We plan to meet them in Miami where they’ll turn in their rental car and then we’ll drive back to the marina. This has been a very busy year for this marina and it appears all the other marina’s we’ve heard about. Most of the marina’s from here to Key West appear to be full through most, if not all, of March. The dock people here at Mangrove Marina say they haven’t seen this many boats at dock in the last 5 years. Part of the limiting factor hear is the water depth. Your boat cannot draw very much water to get into this harbor. The average depth in the harbor is about 3 1/2’ to 4’ depending on the tide. We’ve also heard from other cruisers we’ve met about dock space in the Bahamas and they seem to be full of boats as well.
We get together with many of the other boaters on our dock each evening for a refreshment or two. Who said you had to go snorkeling or diving to get lobster? The two shown below were caught right off the sea wall at the dock with a net. The one was a real monster. It was kind of fun to watch everything transpire.
If everything (weather) works right, we may try to sail out to a couple of the closer keys with Pat and Judy when they get here. We know we have a place to come back to and we know they’d like to see some of the other places out in Florida Bay.
We’re starting to think about hauling the boat out in April and also seeing our daughter Andrea and grandson, Kyle, who will be visiting the middle of April. But we have a few more weeks before me need to think about returning to Manatee Bay Marine.
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