Thursday December 26: Moving On .....

We watched our last sunset from the Seafood Shack dock last night - time to move on.

The weather for the most part has been great here and we've spent the time relaxing - with enough work done to justify the relax time to ourselves :-)

With a nice 5 day weather window, we should be in Banana Bay in Marathon by the first of the new year.

We've seen some different things here though. One was the mullet fisherman - they are CRAZY! Apparently when the mullet are running, they travel in a giant ball of fish very closely packed together. So when the fish are running, everyone and their brother are out with nets.

Our neighbor Sandie said this was nothing - there can be hundreds of boats all running around all in a small space trying to net these small fish which are used for bait fish.

We finally made it to the Cortez Kitchen for breakfast. Nice place - just the way we like it. A mom and pop type place.

The window decorations were well done - it could almost seem like Christmas around here except for the really nice weather!!

A trip to Anna Marie Island was in order yesterday. It was a fun thing to do on Christmas day. How often can you get out on the beach and have it be warm and sunny?

It was a bit farther than I expected. Steve wanted to walk the beach a bit and someone had to watch over the bikes, right?

Everyone was definitely in the Christmas spirit with Santa hats. One group actually had a decorated Christmas tree on the beach for their gathering! Very fun :-)

But it was definitely time to go. Steve spent his last few hour fishing off of the dock.

No great catches but then that's not the point of fishing, is it? Fishing is just for the fun of having a pole in the water and the thought that maybe something might swim by ....


Next destination: Marathon by New Year's Day!