Naples and Fort Myers
From our last report in Marco Island, we did spend one more night in the area, on the hook in Smokehouse Bay, in the heart of the Island. This is a very protected spot about 15 minutes in from the main channel. We dinghied to the marina to visit the bar for happy hour, and in the morning dinghied to the local grocery store, which provides a dinghy dock for boaters. What a service! We continued north for a very easy run of only 20 miles in protected inside passages to Naples. Our friends in Naples provided a contact for us at the Naples Sailing and Yacht Club to enable us to stay for a couple of nights. Beautiful club, and very well located. The heart of old Naples was just a few minutes bike ride away. We got a chance to give our new bikes a real workout with a ride to the beach area, and an area called Port Royal, which is littered with $50M homes on the beach. Naples is one of the wealthiest areas of Florida (hard to believe after seeing the houses on the IC