Great Loop II Date: 11/10/2014
Day
# 101 (Monday): 52.4 miles (2890 total
miles)
Locks:
0 (25 total locks)
Port
#46: Cape Coral, FL
Marina:
Sea Dock – behind our winter home
Todd
and I were excited to leave Cape Haze the next morning. We were on our way home to Cape Coral,
Florida. Of course, our second Loop
didn’t end there. We’d get back to
‘Looping’ the first of March. We already
had a planned trip to Key West with OB over Valentine’s Day. That part of the trip would coincide with Put
In Bay Days in Key West.
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| Swing Bridge at Boca Grande |
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| Cabbage Key |
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| Little Shell Island...a familiar anchorage with our little boat. |
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| Charlie navigating the course home |
As
we came closer to Cape Coral, one of my good friends from our New Resident’s
group was in contact with me. We came up
with the idea to have an impromptu ‘Catch the Lines’ party. The message went out to not only our
Aquaholics friends, but our friends who have relocated from Ohio to the Cape as
well as the Harbor Host for AGLCA. When
we pulled into our dock we had more than a dozen friends waiting to catch our
lines and welcome us home.
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| OB comes home! |
Our
trip to Key West took us to Port #47: Fort Myers Beach...
…
an anchorage in Port #48: Russell’s Pass near Everglades City in Everglades
National Park
…and
Port #49: Key West.
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| AB Marina in Key West Bight. |
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| Good drinks... |
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| ...and food. |
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| Mallory Square |
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| Our Put in Bay favorite singers at PIB Days in Key West...Bob Gatewood... |
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| ...Pat Dailey... |
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| ...Bob Gatewood jamming with Barry Cuda (KW singer)...a first time event. |
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| ...AND Mad Dog Mike Adams! |
On
our return to Cape Coral, we anchored in Port #50: Little Shark River right
where we had anchored in 2011.
Back
in the Cape (Port #51), we had more friends visit.
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| OB back at her dock. |
A
string of bad weather kept us from staying with our plan to leave at the end of
the first week in March. We were held up
until close to the end of March. In the
meantime, Todd ordered my Christmas present…150 feet of anchor chain for
OB. Then THAT delayed us another
week. When the chain arrived, two of our
Aquaholic friends helped up move the 183 pounds of chain to the dock, stretch
it out so I could mark it in 10 foot sections and then move it onto the boat. With the chain in place and a window rapidly
approaching, we moved quickly to close the house, ready OB and leave our dock
in 48 hours.
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