January 1, 2021
As I sit here this morning, we are anchored out just north of Key West proper. It’s a balmy 76 degrees with a steady 20 knot wind. That’s right. It’s pretty but pretty windy. This is why we are anchored here instead of further up the keys. It will be like this for a few days so we’ll stay until Sunday and then make a two day run back to Ft Lauderdale.
Christmas was nice. Key West is always decorated and the restaurants are open so we enjoyed ourselves.
It seems last night our boat had too much to drink as we wandered all over the anchor and ended up in places we haven’t seen the past few days. This has happened before but usually the first night and not after being at anchor for four days.
We’ve been using this down time to do little projects on the boat and give it a good clean. I’ve gotten my fishing gear all sorted for the crossing into the Bahamas and managed to catch a little white grunt yesterday. Not big but enough for a fish taco or two!
This is an interesting anchorage and we see a lot of action during the day. Tour boats going out of Key West, what we call “covid cruises”, jet ski groups several times a day, and even a kite surfer took off and ended up back at the sail cat next to us.
