Saturday, September 4, 2010

2010 - 9/2 - 9/4 - Heading south on the ICW

Thursday, Sept. 2nd Sunny and hot - so what else is new?? Left Sarasota about 9:15 am. Nice easy cruise down the ICW. Decided to try the anchorage at Stump Point, some place we’ve not been. Good choice and think we’ll be back. Took all necessary equipment and the girls to the beach. FINALLY I caught my favorite bait and by the bucket load…great fun and caught a nice speckled trout in the process. Of course I had taken dinner out of the freezer so it was a shoe-in that I’d catch dinner!! Good sleeping without air-conditioning Friday, Sept. 3rd Heard that Burnt Store Marina in Charlotte Harbor had the lowest prices for diesel - $2.72/gal including taxes; that would be our next stop as we’re
practically running on fumes. Arrived there about 3:00 pm fueled up, pumped out and…whadya know - it’s happy hour in the bar !!! Might as well take advantage and down a few. Next thing you know we ordered 4 appetizers too. We left just in time to see a beautiful sunset. Captain Wayne navigated perfectly in the dark and into Pelican Bay at the north end of Cayo Costa. We pulled anchor about 1:30 Saturday, Sept.4th and decided to anchor by a small spit of an island near the Sanibel bridge. We always seem to arrive at
places like this on a weekend-always mobbed with people, kids and dogs. This monster house boat was anchored next to us - YIKES must have been 100 footer. We took the girls ashore and the water was a great relief from the hot sun. Happy hour and dinner on the boat rounded out another wonderful day.

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