* Key Largo to Fort Pierce, Florida * After enjoying a few days in Key Largo, 7:30 am was our planned departure for our voyage to Key Biscayne. The skies were gray and after we untied the lines and pulled off the dock, we noticed a change as the skies […]

*     Marathon to Key Largo    * The last few days at Marlin Bay Marina in Marathon were busy getting things completed to resume cruising again. The captain tackled a toilet project (those are easy to put off), put the dinghy up and cleaned it, cleaned the strainers – again!, washed

* Marathon, Florida * Sombrero Reef! We were so excited! Judy and Dave from Freedom invited us to join them and friends Robin and Del from Avalon for a day of snorkeling. David had his gear on board, but Tasha had none. We headed to the local dive shop, and

* Marathon, Florida * We battened down the hatches for a big windstorm coming our way. The wind in March is relentless. We had heard March is a very windy time in Florida but are now hearing this has been one of the windiest winters in recent years. It certainly

* Marathon, Florida * Excited to be in the Keys is an understatement. The Now or Never and crew is in the islands. We realize it’s the Keys and not the Caribbean “Islands”, but to motor your own vessel into the tranquil teal blue colors of the sea, to the

*   Fort Myers to Marathon   * It was time to move on and continue our Great Loop journey. According to the US Coast Guard we are “pleasure boaters”. To us that means we want to make this trip pleasurable, which equates to sailing in smooth seas. This would be Tasha

*   Last week in Fort Myers   * Our last week in Fort Myers was packed with lots of fun and preparations to motor for the first time in two months. We continued to explore our surroundings by dinghy. With friends from Cell Mates (Lisa and Keith) and Dream Chaser (Wayne

 *     Fort Myers   * The Fort Myers waterfront was very active with the Edison Festival of Light and we had a front row seat to it all! Events for the week-long festival included a Mutt Strut, 5K, children’s parade, classic car show, crafts on the river, stemtastic day of discovery,

find (something or someone) unexpectedly or in the course of a search * Fort Myers   * Can you get a weather refund? After our lifetime of northern winters, our first Southwest Florida winter has had tornadoes and now a winter cold blast that they haven’t seen in years. We’ve had

Fort Myers * We found ourselves in a rare oddity, Tornadoes in Southwest Florida! It was not going to be an easy Sunday morning. We knew winds were building on Saturday night, a low-pressure system bringing rain, and it might get a bit dicey in the marina on Sunday but did