We’ve been anchored off Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne for the past week waiting for parts to be delivered to Ft Lauderdale. It’s been a great anchorage, for the most part quiet and a short dinghy ride to the park. Beautiful sunsets and rainbows thanks to the daily afternoon rain showers will be missed when we leave tomorrow.
We had lunch the other day at the Lighthouse Cafe in the park and shared a patio with a baby raccoon. Apparently he’s been there since he was a tiny thing and gets regular meals compliments of the staff.
Missed a picture of the huge lizard on the golf course yesterday. He must have been a good 2-3 feet long and was orange and yellow. Quite the sight and he can keep my ball if he wants it.
Then there was the first fish I’ve caught from the boat. Unfortunately it was a 6 inch sand perch and looked so pitiful I threw him back. If you look close you’ll see Isabella at the bottom of the photo hoping it was her dinner.
Traveling with a cat has it’s moments. Bahamas requires animals to have a current rabies shot “not less than 30 days prior or more than 10 months” prior to entering the country. Our layup waiting for parts meant that we missed the window on Isabella’s shot from March of last year. So she got another vaccination this week here at Key Biscayne and from Ft Lauderdale we’ll head to Fort Pierce for a few weeks and then finally head to the Bahamas. The good news is that this means Gary will get to go to the 24 Hours of Daytona (an annual pilgrimage for him) and we’ll be able to drive over to Sebring to watch friends race in the Porsche Club event. But I have to admit when we realized there would be yet another delay to us heading further south the margarita maker was fired up and we drowned our frustrations.
Something really cool we discovered here on Key Biscayne is LimeBikes. Download the application to your phone and then use it to unlock a bike and ride wherever you want. When you’re done just leave the bike anywhere, lock it and you’re done. $1 a ride. It’s good that Florida is such a flat state. 😎