May 10 , Pelican Bay at Cayo Costa then back to Pine Island

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Friday we traveled by dinghy a about 2.5 miles over to Cabbage Key for lunch.  It is “old Florida” charm and a sister restaurant to Tarpon Lodge over on Pine Island that we went to last week.  

We ate out on the patio but went in for an interior tour. There is a dining room, a pub room and the “dollar” room.  Our server told us that there is approximately $90,000 pinned up on the walls and ceilings. 

One must travel there by boat, there are cottages that can be rented and it is noted as a historic site.

 Cabbage Key website  

These 2 photos taken from their website

29 boats in the Pelican Bay this afternoon and I’m sure there will be a few more come in. The winds had slowed down yesterday and I’m so glad we had a beach day because the winds shifted from the north and they were GUSTY 💨💨💨💨! 

Whitecaps in the protected anchorage. 

Saturday

The winds did slow down for the night and early morning (only about 10-15s) but still windy. 

We traveled by dinghy about 5 miles over to Bokeelia on the north end of Pine Island and met up with Ridge and Denise at Captain Con's Fish House for lunch. We are enjoying going out to restaurants again though dining outside and this area of the Gulf coast has so many small keys (mangrove islands) that are accessible only by boat. 

We met up for dinner on Sea Dweller as Bryan grilled up a great dinner again.

Bryan sawing a large dog bone in half for the pups.

Sunset view of Summer Breeze

View of the anchorage with everyone’s anchor lights shining like stars. Summer Breeze is the low one on far left side. 

There is a small lagoon next to our anchorage so we dinghied in and discovered that there are several manatees there. They were quite playful and inquisitive about us. One came up to the dinghy and got close to the motor so we turned it off.

Taking Otis out for a little beach time.

Dinner and sunset on Sea Dweller. 

Happy Mothers Day! 

And happy birthday to Otis! He made it to 1! 

Well, true congratulations to Bryan and Mary for  making it to 1 year! 

He and Bella look sweet here but she won't let him get too playful with her still. She puts him in his place.

This photo worked because they knew there were some treats being handed out.

Monday May 10, time to head out. Sea Dweller is following us out of the anchorage.

Sea Dweller passing us up.

They are faster than us so they left us in their wake! They also had a longer trip to make back home, about 6 hours. We had less than 3 hours to get to the area close to Ridge and Denise again to provision and stage for our Gulf crossing over to the keys.

We got to an anchorage very close to their home about 1:00 and had plenty of time to provision. Thanks to them for letting us use their laundry so to not use up our fresh water supply and take us to the grocery store. 

Sunset at York Island anchorage.

Tomorrow, Tuesday May 11 we head south towards Marathon in the Keys. It will be a 2 day run for us and the winds have appeared to calm down enough for us to travel. Perfect timing!