From Riches to Rags

Some of you may be wondering why no posts in the last couple of days. Well, sometimes there just isn’t that much interesting happening to write about. Yesterday, we had a long and windy run from Venice to Fort Myers where we stayed at an amazing marina. It looked and felt like a very upper-class resort which made us wonder why they let us in. We were in tall cotton, as they say.

Today, we are in the dumpiset of dumpy marinas. We are currently moored to a wooden dock in Moore Haven that, had I hit it too hard (like I have been known to do), I think it would have crumbled into the water. To call this place “no frills” would be an upgrade from what it truly is. All that being said, the people were really nice and allowed us to use their golf cart to head up to the local restaurant for dinner. The food was actually very good.

The Caloosahatchee River had a variety of bridges and we transited our first 2 locks of the Loop today. We also saw our first alligator of the trip.

For those keeping score at home, I have not had any encounters with pilings in the last 2 days. There is a pool to see how long I can go before ruining my string of successful dockings. Anybody want in?

Almost to the Atlantic

Tidbits from the Loop