Day Five started early. I woke up at 4:00 AM and couldn't go back to sleep. Coffee.
Checked all the liquids... diesel, oil, and water. Pulled out at 6:30 AM.
To the south was a number of thunderheads and as the morning progressed, they started to come in from the west as well. Needless to say, I got wet.
Today was the hardest and longest leg of the passage so far, (52.09 miles). There was a whole lot of "skinny water." That's what I call water when the channel is only 40 ft. wide, if that, and there are shallows of 1 & 2 ft. of each side... that's skinny water and it's nerve racking when your boat drafts 5 feet.
Toward the end of the day, it's started to look a lot better weather wise and that helped.
I'm pretty tired... think I turn in early.
Here's the pics, and
here's a link to a video, (I posted it on Annie's Facebook page because the quality is better than blogger).
Fair seas and God bless.
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| The Start of the Day |
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| South of me at 6:45 AM |
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| Storms coming in from the West too |
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| Did I say I got wet...yep. |
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| Cape Coral |
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| They're Everywhere! |
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Cape Haze
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174.15 miles so far...
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Very nice.
ReplyDeleteI'm starting to think that when you're on the water, there's no such thing as a bad picture. lol
Gotta watch out for those shallow spots.
I know! I saw five sailboats grounded/sunk in the ICW today between Cape Haze and Bradenton... to pictures and posted them to Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/sv.dreamboat.annie/
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