1/05 Friday - We are on the move again! This morning, we called the Sanibel Marina to check
whether their situation had improved and it had. The dock master encouraged us to make our way
over. About 12:30 we cast off our lines
at Legacy Harbor Marina headed over to City of Ft. Meyers Marina to top off our
diesel tanks and headed down the river towards Sanibel. A couple hours later we tried contacting the
marina on the VHF for our slip assignment only to find the slip had a boat in
it. Apparently some guy in a run about
just pulled in, went to the beach and left his boat in fate's hands. The marina folks towed the offender over to
the fuel dock and we backed right in.
This marina is owned by the same folks who own Ireland Boat Sales - who
are a dealer for Back Cove Yachts and there are lots of them in this marina. We had an early dinner at Grandma Dots
restaurant (right at the marina); it was a great meal.
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| Good bye Legacy. We truly loved our stay! |
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| Hello Sanibel! |
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| Entrance to the marina |
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| Our view to port |
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| Our view to starboard |
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| View off our bow |
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| We are back in the land of the pelicans |
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| Gramma Dots. Observer berthed just to right |
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| Gramma Dots at night |
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| The entrance to the marina drive |
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| This plane was sitting in the parking lot |
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| The plane lit up at night |
1/06 Saturday The folks at the marina dropped off hot
blueberry muffins and a newspaper right to our boat at 7:15 am; that's a nice
perk. We took Millie for a walk out to
the Sanibel Lighthouse; its cool, but a sunny day. Later, we set out on our bikes in search of
the place Alice stayed on a couple family vacations in Sanibel. Thanks to Chauncey's (Alice's Mom) ability to
recall and Google, we found it. Sanibel has a great bike trail system around
the island. Tim did a solo ride over to the Captiva end of the island. We had a
nice home cooked meal aboard and prepped for our passage tomorrow.
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| 2 warm blueberry muffins muffins and the newspaper delivered each morning at 7 am |
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| Sanibel lighthouse |
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| All decked out for the holidays |
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| Sanibel is known rot it's beautiful beaches teeming with shells |
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| This is where Alice's family would vacation back in the 70s |
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| One vacation, there wasn't enough room in the condo so Alice, her sister Plummy and one of Plummy's friends stayed at the Kona Kai. |
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| Tim rode from Sanibel on the right side of this frame out to the blue dot on the left. |
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| One of the many bike trails throughout Sanibel |
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