Cruising the ICW

We spent a long weekend at Lighthouse Point Yacht Club, arriving Thursday and due to leave tomorrow, Tuesday, assuming the weather cooperates.  What a great place to stay.  Beautiful facility, great pool, tiki bar with a Happy Hour, and great staff to help with docking. Tristan arrived Friday night, for another 3 day weekend.  Since he is working in Augusta, it is just as easy for him to join us as it is to return to Toronto for the weekend.  Saturday morning, we took advantage of him having a car to do a provisioning run, which is always appreciated.  After lunch, we spent some time at the pool as it has been really hot here recently.  Even the locals are referring to it as "Summer temperatures".  We even have been running the air conditioning the last few nights to sleep well.  But seems to be cooling off a bit the next few days. We toured Palm Beach area Saturday afternoon, and did a walk around the Flagler museum.  "Whitehall" was originally the home of th

We departed Pennekamp State Park in Key Largo under what seems to be constant sunny skies, and breezy conditions.  We planned to stop at a recommended snorkeling spot on the out reef, but by the time we got there concluded it was too rough to hang on the mooring buoy, with 3 to 4 foot seas.  We continued north and inshore, headed for Biscayne Bay, and the water well inside the reef calmed significantly.  We were passing by a shoal area and that was marked with a wreck, and mooring buoys, so decided to stop there for a swim and lunch.  The snorkeling yielded lots of fish, but the wreck was on the south side and a fair swim from the boat.  I wasn't comfortable leaving the boat, on the windward side of the rocks for long, so we didn't see the wreck. We continued north up Hawk Channel and then crossed into the Bay-side at Adams Key.  Another narrow channel, with a shoaling entrance, but much calmer on the Biscayne Bay side. Anchored for the night with a number of other boats in s