As some of you may know, my parents are about a week away from completing their Great Loop journey aboard their 38′ Marine Trader, Island Time. The Great Loop is the circumnavigation of Eastern North America, a continuous waterway connecting inland lakes and rivers with the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and the Great Lakes. For many …
Snook Bight Marina
After our overnight stay at Naples City Dock, we headed north back to our home port of Fort Myers Beach to spend New Years with family & friends. We had been away from our home port dock for 4 nights and we weren’t ready to head into Snook Bight just yet, so we stopped at …
Last night, Randy and I and his father (John) and April were invited to catch up over dinner with Tim and Joan on Head Over Keels. We had a wonderful time with good friends, laughter and a couple bottles of wine. The party had just broke up not too long ago and I was in bed …
After we returned Monday from our weekend out on the mooring ball, my parents came into Snook Bight the following day, Tuesday. It was their anniversary, and since they were already on Fort Myers Beach, they decided to come to Snook Bight to stay a night and have a celebratory dinner at Bay Front Bistro, …
After our long day at the Fort Myers Beach Shrimp Festival and the time change, we slept in this morning. We had our coffee up on the bridge and enjoyed the start of another gorgeous day. Since it was just Randy and I during the day, we packed a cooler, grabbed our beach chairs and the …
I say “finally” because we are a couple of weeks late to the Mardi Gras party…it is pretty much over. But do we care? Um, not so much. We had our usual Sunday evening dock party today, but Mary Kay set the theme a Mardi Gras, complete with her homemade seafood gumbo and shucked oysters. …
Last Saturday, February 2nd our marina, Snook Bight, hosted an Open House to celebrate the completion of the floating docks. It was a grand party with people coming from all over by boat, car and bikes. It was a festive day around the docks with food, drink, raffles and even a golf contest where folks …
After having the last two weeks off, my holiday vacation time was coming to a close. With this weekend being my last weekend of vacation freedom, we decided to relax around the marina and take in the sites of Fort Myers Beach (FMB). The images above were actually taken on Friday, but they were too …
As you saw in my last post about live aboard marinas in southwest Florida, Randy and I were preparing to move from Cape Coral Yacht Basin to Snook Bight Marina. On Friday, we said our goodbyes in Cape Coral and pulled up our lines and headed to Snook Bight marina on Fort Myers Beach. We …