Tuesday December 30: Anchored in Biscayne Bay

We left Hollywood this morning - on the water and moving by 9 after stopping at the fuel dock for a pumpout.

For the 3rd day in a row, the wind is almost non-existent. I don't think we could ask for a better day to travel!

Yesterday turned into a fiasco - called at 7:30 for Enterprise to pick us up (my bone density scan was scheduled for 10 am) only to be told - oh, sorry but we don't have a car this morning. What??!!!

Fortunately, Steve was on the phone and not me as I'm sure my head was close to imploding :-) But we made the reservation over a week ago. Yea - sorry about that. Overbooked. No cars.

So I start looking for cars elsewhere. Nothing at all around except for the airport - a $25 cab ride away. Mmmm.... not sure what to do.

Enterprise came through in the end. Darien - the same guy that picked us up last time we rented from them - somehow produced a car and picked us up at 9 am - just enough time for us to do the paperwork and get to the Cleveland Clinic in Weston (about 30 miles away).

Ahhhh ... arrived 10 minutes to spare. Only to wait for 40 minutes to just register - which means you sign 3 papers. Weird thing? The guy finally calls for Linda Franko. So I get up - as does a lady sitting nearby. We BOTH go up to the guy. He's looking for Linda Franko - we both say "that''s me"! Except she's Franco with a C and I am Franko with a K. What are the odds???

Anyway, in the end we decided to just wait until today to get going .... it was a good decision for sure :-)

Back to today: the wateways were only for us apparently as there were no other boats traveling.

It was so calm it was crazy. The only breeze what what we made by traveling 8 mph. Otherwise it was just dead calm.


Uneventful except for the bridge that was closing as we passed underneath. I knew we could clear the bridge when it was closed but it was weird having it coming down seemingly on top of us!


Traffic picked up as we approached Biscayne Bay. It was so calm we could see the bottom a good part of the way through.

We were no sooner anchored (after a 42 mile day - about 7 hours) than Steve was off to check out the area.

Not much to be found. The water was very clear but just nothing around.

But the sunset was really nice. It's now dark, Steve is cooking dinner and we hope to see some stars tonight!

Tomorrow we're off to Treasure Harbor to see our friend Pam and stay a couple of days.