Key-Bound

3.27.10

While in Miami, we met up with our great friend Bill and caught a Miami heat game. We tested out the Miami public transportation system (not as bad as it sounds!) and gawked at the other large yachts in our marina. We were kept awake...I mean rock to sleep...every night by the ginormous speakers at the nearby outdoor mall; which, conveniently for us, started up at 7 in the morning and didn't turn off until 3am. Stupendous.
We finally left Miami on Tuesday, the 23rd and sailed all day south on the Biscayne Bay. It was a perfect day - crystal clear water, easterly wind and not a cloud in the sky. We hoisted the sails and enjoyed a beam reach easy sailing kind of day. We made it to Pumpkin Key, at the south end of Biscayne Bay and anchored for the night - just in time to enjoy a gorgeous south Florida sunset.
The plan was to set out the following day around noon to make the most of a high tide that we needed to get through a narrow channel out to the ocean. We studied the charts early Wednesday morning, and quickly realized there was nowhere to anchor between where we were and Long Key - 50miles away. There was no way we were going to be able to leave in the afternoon and make it to our next anchorage before dark. So, we chalked Wednesday up as a novice mistake and spent the day sunbathing on the boat instead. :)