Happy Thanksgiving

More Cowbell in Bahia Honda

Happy Thanksgiving! We are in Marathon, Fl staying in the Sombrero marina. They are having a cruiser’s pot luck at the local bar and grill 5 slips away. We are bringing pumpkin pies.

We left Key West on Monday morning on a blustery day, wind 10-15 out of the north. Guess which way we were headed, NORTH. It was a choppy beat the whole way. There were approximately 250 crab pots to slalom around. David was lucky enough to snag one! We tacked and were going pretty slow when I looked behind us and saw a crab cage surfing behind us. Since David was driving when it happened we unanimously agreed that he should attempt to free it. He cut the line, but nothing popped up. So he grit his teeth, took off his shirt, donned a snorkel mask and jumped in. After a few shrieks, he dove down, did I mention it was choppy…he surfaced looking a bit freaked out, but managed to free the prop. He was the hero of the day!

We made it to Bahia Honda Key around 3:30 pm. We fiddle farted around with anchoring for 2 hours and finally got our anchor to hold. We only set one anchor since the other boats were doing the same. We enjoyed the view and hit the sack early anticipating a long night with both GPS’ and anchor alarms. We were right, the anchor ended up dragging about 30 ft total in the combined 2-3kt current with the 10 kts wind at around 2 am. David set is repeating alarm on his watch for every 15min. David and I slept (if you would call it that) on the settees, he with his GPS and me with mine. His alarm would go off and he’d say “report”. I would give him the “we’re ok” or “looks like a wind shift” or “oh my God, please hold”. We did that all night, but were able to sleep better after 0300.

The next day, we explored the island, dinghed around and snorkeled. It was a bit cold, but we had a great time. We decided, after hearing the forecast to move the boat to the Southeast side of the key. Mucho better! We enjoyed this beautiful sunset and slept incredibly well. We even saw some fluorescent jellies.

snorkeling view of the beach

Sunset in Bahia Honda

We headed then to Marathon, Florida. We met the people on the boat we took a picture of at sunset, Kim and Bob. Very nice people, drank some beer and listened to live music last night in this very friendly marina. They are making a crossing to the Bahamas in a couple of days also, but are going to the Abacos instead of our plan to go to Gun cay or Cat cay to check in.

That is all for now. We will probably be jumping from here to Bimini, Gun or Cat cays in the next two days. David or I will post the tracking of our new SPOT, either today or tomorrow. Our mom’s bought it for us. They were tired of waiting for us to call.

My Guys