Wednesday December 19: 'Home' for the Holidays - Treasure Harbor

The sunrise yesterday morning was as great as the sunset the night before. It was a quiet night - but you can guess who had to go out in the rain to shut the front hatch because guess who didn't hear it raining ... not to name any names :-)

It was a very short travel day of 15 miles to Treasure Harbor Marina in Islamorda. The Florida Bay was very calm and very shallow. Lots of mangrove cut throughs.

When the depth finder read 6.5 feet in northern areas, I began to frantically look for the "channel" - meaning deeper water. Here on the bay side 6.5 or 7 feet is the norm. I'm still getting used to that.

We arrived at Treasure Harbor Marina about noon or so. The entrance is quite shallow but as long as we enter 3 hours on either side of high tide it's not a problem.

Pam welcomed us with open arms - it's so nice to be back. Kind of like Cheers - being somewhere where someone knows your name :-)

The plan is to be here for the next couple of weeks and then head on down to Marathon.

Steve of course loves the iguanas that live around here. Today there were about a dozen in the trees near our dock. Quite the fun looking creatures.

These are actually considered to be an invasive species that most likely originated in the area as released pets. If you want more information click here to go to a University of Florida web site that gives info about the iguanas in south Florida.

When it finally cooled of a bit this afternoon (note the almost cloudless sky!), it was time to put up the Christmas lights.

Last year we were in California at Matt and Wendy's for Christmas (as well as 2009 :-) ) so this year we will celebrate here on the boat at Treasure Harbor.

Must be time for some lights on the boat, right? First step is to get the lights onto the top of the mast.

Next is to put some lights around the flybridge.

And of course around the front railing - at least as far as the $4 pack of lights Steve found at the thrift store in St. Augustine would allow us to go.

Final result? A nicely decorated Yesterday's Dream :-)

We are ready now - just need to wait for Christmas in  less than a week!!!



Blogging will be intermittent as we are not traveling. Will update any project or 'excitement' as they happen :-)

In the meantime - Happy Holidays!!