We have heard much about this popular cruising destination. It has a mooring field with over 200 mooring balls and many boats also anchored. We arrived on Monday and have been here enjoying ourselves ever since. It’s nice to be in a place where a shower is a dinghy ride away and there is much to see and do ashore. We have spent a little bit of time on a beach that is about a 15 minute dinghy ride away. The weather has been the nicest yet, with temperatures in the mid to upper twenties and a light breeze blowing to keep us cool. The water is nice and refreshing for the hot days when you need to get cooled off. The city of Marathon has a great city park with facilities for just about every sport available including a skateboard park. Like almost every other place we have stopped to in the Keys there’s a highway with shopping, restaurants and grocery stores. Which is nice in some ways, but in other ways it would be nice to leave civilization behind for a while. The cruising community here is very strong and every morning at 9am they have a program on the VHF radio that provides everyone is listening range a place to communicate. They welcome new arrivals and have a time for them to announce themselves; they can announce lots of activities going on and where they can advertise items for sale. We try to catch it any morning for any events going on that might interest us. Many people stay here for a month or two because it’s warm, protected and the price is definitely right.
Sal and I have done a bit of plumbing and electrical work. Our battery was not being charged so we had to figure out the problem and try to fix it. We are definitely becoming a lot more handy around the boat. My parents have become beach bums and have been there more than we have! All they need is some comfortable beach chairs and I swear they would be there all daylong if they could! Sal and I visited the local museum and wildlife reserve where we were able to see close up some of the local birds (because they were injured some way and are there to be rehabilitated). We learned a bit about the history of the keys and about some of it’s animal inhabitants.
(Nurse Shark in an aquarium)
Other than that we have just been taking things easy, relaxing, enjoying the warm weather and reading as much as we can.
hi all
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Im glad the weather is nice and hope it continues and that your problems stay minimal.
Dont get sunburnt :)
Hi K&S like what we hear, Here it is warm inside only. Outside once 30 Below C BRR Tell us more when you get a chance/
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From Alice Stapper at Nel's place She has lost her own Internet but just looked at your late writings. Hi
ReplyDeleteI'm lost for words. Can't tell you all how jealous I am. I have nothing of interest to share.Doing some work at H&R and classes of course.
Huiby is well, she had a few rough spots, but mostly she is as well as she was.She has decided that Fred & I are not her friends. Mean as a snake to us most of the time. Someone new or different she seems to put her arms out too. Well heave hoe. Must say you blog is fantastic. Love your Aunt Allie
Thank you all for the comments. I guess we cannot complain about the cold front that we had when we hear about how cold it is in Canada. It's great to hear from everyone.
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