trip to marco island

So we left caya Costa bound for Marco Island but before we left we needed to fuel up so we go to a little marina to top the tanks off all went without an incident as were leaving the marina I have Karen holding the line to the dingy on the side of the boat so we don't get it caught up in the dock as we round the channel marker headed for open water I tell her to let go of the line shortly after that we both look back in horror as the dingy was not tied to the cleat and falling back behind rapidly lucky for us a very nice fisherman grabbed it and brought it back to the boat leave it to Captain Ahab. To not tied off to the cleat the rest of the trip went uneventful until the last 10 miles then we ran into a hellacious storm 40 mile an hour winds and 8 foot seas not fun but we made it through and the boat did great now we're waiting out weather in Marco Island hopefully we leave Sunday wish us luck
                                                                                

And the journey begins

We left the dock at 9 a.m. it felt very surreal going down the canal knowing we won't be coming back for at least a year our first stop was Venice a pretty uneventful sale down very light winds and mostly on our nose weather was nice partly sunny. About 91 degrees we pulled into the marina expected to get some dinner  and find out that it will be closed until the 28th of September  so had to fire up the grill and cook some burgers  yummy going down to the beach tomorrow to look for sharks teeth pictures to come