Saturday May 1

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Dinner at Tarpon Lodge  with Ridge and Denise. 

It is a historic "Old Florida" lodge with a fine restaurant and accommodations (cottages, boat house, lodge) all on the water on Pine Island across from Cayo Costa. We will be anchored in that area next week. 

We cleaned the ICW mustache off the hull of Summer Breeze. She looks much better. Bruce got in the dinghy and Rosie moved him around the hull with the dinghy lines while he cleaned. 😄

Summer Breeze leaving “Kaiser Channel”. 

Ridge and Denise waving from their back yard. Notice the new pool construction going on!

We left at 2:00 just before high tide and only going 2.33 miles away and anchored in the little bay area behind Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. We are looking forward to exploring this area by dinghy.

Sunset on Saturday evening. 

Sunday

Yesterday we dinghied around towards Tarpon Basin but didn’t find anything interesting but we did stop for a swim on a sandbar.  Today we took the dinghy the other direction towards some cuts through the mangrove islands we could see on the charts.

Again, nothing great but still interesting. 

We stopped at a sandbar again and spent some time in the water. No manatees over here right now. 

Tomorrow we move up the coast a bit. 

Sunset on Sunday. Being on a “west” coast, we are getting some some great sunsets! Finally! 

And it gets better ...

And better!