Happy St. Patty’s Day! We are in Key West now. Arrived on Thursday after a couple days in the Everglades. It was fun dinghying around and seeing it, but man-o-man, the bugs were bad. I’m still still recovering from the no-see-um and mosquito bites.
Waiting for a Weather Window
We are now waiting for a weather window to Mexico. It is not cooperating. You know all those storms you are seeing cross the US? They are not making the waters of the Gulf and Caribbean very nice. That combined with needing to cross the Gulf Stream twice and it is being a bit difficult. We are working with a weather router and biding our time checking out Key West.
St Patrick’s Day
Today we met up with a bunch of Krogen folks and celebrated St. Patrick’s Day. Everyone in Key West seems to be wearing green and celebrating. Yesterday there was a foot race and a pub crawl (nope, not for us).
Excitement on the Mooring Field
There are several large mooring fields and several marinas as well as lots of anchored boats. Many of the folks who work in town live on boats as housing is soooo expensive.
Jim and I were biking around yesterday doing errands when we noticed heavy black smoke from the direction of the mooring field. Yikes! We check all our devices that monitor our boat and we THINK we are not the doomed boat. (We are not!)
Turns out is is a sale boat two boats away from us. The fire boat heads out and dumps sea water on the boat until it sinks. Still hooked to the mooring ball. Luckily the couple and their dogs were in town so on one was hurt, but their boat and all their belonging are gone. I can only imagine how they are coping.
The Eclectic Key West
We’ve been enjoying Key West. It is an inviting community, very open to people and vibrant. Except for the heat and humidity, I can appreciate why folks like living and visiting here. I’ll let Key West tell it’s story in pictures.
And So We Wait
We are hoping that perhaps Tuesday night we might find a weather window. However, the Winter weather has been sucky (even scuba trips by the various companies have been mostly canceled) The weather forecasters do not see much of a change for the rest of the month, but our fingers are crossed and we keep looking for that small 2 – 3 day window to jump across. Wish us the luck of the Irish!