This past week was spent working and catching up on chores. Finally, we went diving! Sombrero Reef is about 4 miles offshore from Marathon Marina which makes it very convenient to get in a few quick dives without all the travel time. A National Marine Sanctuary, the reef is marked by a 140 foot lighted …
Cruising
This is some video that was taken on our way from Fort Myers Beach to the Dry Tortugas from June 27-29, 2014 on 40′ DeFever Passagemaker, Blue Turtle.
Since last week was spent on the dock at Marathon Marina, we decided we want to anchor out and dive for the weekend. Randy did some searching for anchorages and found one at Bahia Honda which is close enough to Looe Key for us dive. So, Friday afternoon we left the dock and headed toward …
The past week here in Marathon was spent on the dock, working (for Randy), catching up on the blog (me) and running errands—getting air tanks refilled, grocery, dive shop outlet for new mask for me and fins for Corey, ordering a new part for the generator, etc. The marina we are staying at, Marathon Marina, …
On Saturday morning, July 5th, we left Key West and headed for Looe Key. Looe Key is a National Marine Sanctuary located 5 nautical miles off of Big Pine Key. The last time I was here was back in the 1990’s with my parents. At the time I was only snorkeling while they dove the …
After our awesome adventure in the Dry Tortugas, we were ready to head into civilization. Well, not really, but it was time to head on to Key West where we would stay in a marina for a couple days over the 4th of July holiday. We left early again knowing it would take us about …
After the storm and winds came through the previous evening, we were hoping for the winds to calm down some. We wanted to take the boat over to Loggerhead Key and check out the lighthouse and windjammer wreck. One thing we didn’t realize about the Dry Tortugas is that the other little islands are just …
After our towing in, Randy continued through the night to get our engine started. We were lucky he was able to get the generator started. After a sleepless night for Randy, he awoke early and began again to get the engine starting batteries charged up enough to start the engine and finish bleeding the lines. …
On our third day, we awoke early at our Jewfish Basin anchorage with our boat listing to port. We’ve had our boat list before, but since Randy replaced our cracked water tank, it solved the problem. In the past, our listing issues had to do with missing a water tank or taking on fuel. Randy …
After a restful night at our Isle of Capri anchor age, it was time to head further south toward the Florida Keys. Since we cut our 1st day trip short because of the storm, we had 80 miles to cruise to get to Jewfish Basin in the Keys. We typically cruise around 6 knots, sometimes …
So I finally got my laptop back—YAY! And now I can get caught up with blogging about our super awesome trip so far. Our adventure began on Friday, June 27th and our first stop was Ballard Oil to take on 100 gallons of diesel. It had been about a year since we topped off the …
Sorry there haven’t been any updates on our Keys trip on the blog. I’ve been posting to Facebook when I can and as some of you might know, I’m without my MacBook Pro. My Mac decided to quit on me halfway to Jewfish Basin on the 2nd day of our trip. For those of you …