Friday - We were greeted this morning by our friends on Golden who had come down to Fort Myers Beach from Fort Myers to pick up a mooring in the mooring field for the weekend and watch the boat parade Saturday night.
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| Golden passing us this morning on their way to the Fort Myers Beach mooring field |
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| View of the mooring field as seen from the top of the Fort Myers Beach Bridge |
We have reservations at Salty Sam's Marina for the same time frame so we left Pink Shell Marina at 1:30 and made the short hop down
the river to Salty Sam's.
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| Fort Myers Beach has a large fishing presence ... |
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| Salty Sam's Marina |
This is
a real center of activity for the area with two restaurant, rental boats, Pirate
Cruise and Key West Express, this place attracts a lot of folks on a nice
day. Golden's rental mooring is right off our marina with prime viewing of the parade tomorrow night.
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| A taste of things to come! The boat on the right is getting ready to participate in the parade tomorrow night. They have a large inflatable dolphin being led by Santa in a sleigh. |
We hosted Golden for docktails and then we all grabbed dinner at the marina restaurant.
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| Out table for dinner was outside on the porch. This was our view. |
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| A little bit later |
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| This pirate walked by us as we were finishing up. |
Saturday - we met up with the crew of Golden and toured around the water parameter of San Carlos Island
in our dinghy. These have been Paige and Mike's home waters for 12 years so we had a fabulous time learning all about the area. We checked out the
mangroves and waterfront homes - always something to see.
The hi-light of the day was the Holiday Boat
parade. Alice made dinner and brought it
out to Golden who had a prime viewing spot.
It was a beautiful night for the event (no wind or waves and there was a
beautiful super moon out). We watched the start of the parade with some 25 or so
boats, had dinner and then watched them again as the parade returned to the
main harbor. It was a great event; we
are so glad we delayed our trip to Ft. Meyers to enjoy this night. When we returned to the marina, we were invited for a night cap aboard Thistle whose slip was right in the thick of the after party. Such fun!
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| There must have been a 1/2 dozen Elvis impersonators on this boat |
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| Even dinghies got in the act |
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| Nativity scene |
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| This pontoon boat was amazing. It had a large Christmas Tree made of LED lights on the bow that changes designs every few seconds |
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| The same pontoon boat with a the lights lit like a Christmas tree |
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| We liked the shark on the bow |
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| This is a bit hard to see , but it is the boat with the inflated dolphin on the bow. You can see that added lighted swimming dolphins all along the rails |
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| Another decorated pontoon boat |
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