I've posted some pictures from our cruise to the Florida Keys last
weekend for those who might be interested.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hoonos...lbum?.dir=75c3

Our itinerary was Cape Coral to Marco Island; Marco Island to Key
West; New Years day in Key West; Key West to Boot Key Harbor at
Marathon via Hawk Channel; Marathon to Marco via Moser Channel, Red
Bay Bank and Florida Bay; and Marco back to Cape Coral with a side
trip into Gordon Pass and the harbor at Naples.

The trip was relatively uneventful but we did have a few days of very
brisk easterly winds in the 20 to 25 knot range. Seas in Florida Bay
were in the 2 to 3 foot range on the trip south, calm on the way back.
Seas in Hawk Channel were a solid 3 feet on the day after New Years
when 5 to 8 feet was being reported outside the reef. There were few
boats under 45 feet out that day.

We found plenty of well sheltered anchor room west of Flemming Key in
Key West but Boot Key Harbor was definitely on the tight side,
especially for a 49 foot boat. There are several good marinas on the
way into Boot Key that looked like they may have had space. At Marco
we anchored behind Coconut Island both coming and going. The charts
for Coconut Island are not entirely accurate and it is important to
enter that anchorage from the shore side, well past the Manatee signs.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
I've posted some pictures from our cruise to the Florida Keys last
weekend for those who might be interested.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hoonos...lbum?.dir=75c3


Very nice. Wish we had Mrs. E's GB down here. Maybe next year.

Eisboch

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:39:17 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


Very nice. Wish we had Mrs. E's GB down here. Maybe next year.

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If you drive over to Cape Coral some time, I'll take you out on ours.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
I've posted some pictures from our cruise to the Florida Keys last
weekend for those who might be interested.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hoonos...lbum?.dir=75c3

Our itinerary was Cape Coral to Marco Island; Marco Island to Key
West; New Years day in Key West; Key West to Boot Key Harbor at
Marathon via Hawk Channel; Marathon to Marco via Moser Channel, Red
Bay Bank and Florida Bay; and Marco back to Cape Coral with a side
trip into Gordon Pass and the harbor at Naples.

The trip was relatively uneventful but we did have a few days of very
brisk easterly winds in the 20 to 25 knot range. Seas in Florida Bay
were in the 2 to 3 foot range on the trip south, calm on the way back.
Seas in Hawk Channel were a solid 3 feet on the day after New Years
when 5 to 8 feet was being reported outside the reef. There were few
boats under 45 feet out that day.

We found plenty of well sheltered anchor room west of Flemming Key in
Key West but Boot Key Harbor was definitely on the tight side,
especially for a 49 foot boat. There are several good marinas on the
way into Boot Key that looked like they may have had space. At Marco
we anchored behind Coconut Island both coming and going. The charts
for Coconut Island are not entirely accurate and it is important to
enter that anchorage from the shore side, well past the Manatee signs.

Very nice Wayne. Thanks for sharing the pictures and story with us.

Great pictures; great boat, too. No I did not see the pelican.

Rick

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:52:12 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Nice pictures...did you pay extra for those puffy clouds in the first
few photos?

=================================

There was no charge since we gave equal time to the clouds on the left
and the clouds on the right.

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:28:57 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

I've posted some pictures from our cruise to the Florida Keys last
weekend for those who might be interested.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hoonos...lbum?.dir=75c3

Our itinerary was Cape Coral to Marco Island; Marco Island to Key
West; New Years day in Key West; Key West to Boot Key Harbor at
Marathon via Hawk Channel; Marathon to Marco via Moser Channel, Red
Bay Bank and Florida Bay; and Marco back to Cape Coral with a side
trip into Gordon Pass and the harbor at Naples.

The trip was relatively uneventful but we did have a few days of very
brisk easterly winds in the 20 to 25 knot range. Seas in Florida Bay
were in the 2 to 3 foot range on the trip south, calm on the way back.
Seas in Hawk Channel were a solid 3 feet on the day after New Years
when 5 to 8 feet was being reported outside the reef. There were few
boats under 45 feet out that day.

We found plenty of well sheltered anchor room west of Flemming Key in
Key West but Boot Key Harbor was definitely on the tight side,
especially for a 49 foot boat. There are several good marinas on the
way into Boot Key that looked like they may have had space. At Marco
we anchored behind Coconut Island both coming and going. The charts
for Coconut Island are not entirely accurate and it is important to
enter that anchorage from the shore side, well past the Manatee signs.

Some beautiful pictures there, Wayne. Tell us about the camera. You
got some amazing depth of field in some of those shots. I'd expect to
see them framed on your walls at home.

Good job!

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:40:40 -0500, JohnH
wrote:
Some beautiful pictures there, Wayne. Tell us about the camera. You
got some amazing depth of field in some of those shots. I'd expect to
see them framed on your walls at home.

The camera is a fairly modest digital, 2 mega pixel, Olympus D-390.

A few of the pictures were shot with full SHQ resolution but most are
with the default HQ setting. Olympus says both modes are 1600 x 1200
pixels so it's not clear to me why SHQ uses more memory or offers
higher quality.

Wayne B.
LOL In that one picture, I'm glad you mentioned the pelican. :-)
Paul

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
I've posted some pictures from our cruise to the Florida Keys last
weekend for those who might be interested.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hoonos...lbum?.dir=75c3
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Wayne.B wrote:

I've posted some pictures from our cruise to the Florida Keys last
weekend for those who might be interested.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hoonos...lbum?.dir=75c3

Our itinerary was Cape Coral to Marco Island; Marco Island to Key
West; New Years day in Key West; Key West to Boot Key Harbor at
Marathon via Hawk Channel; Marathon to Marco via Moser Channel, Red
Bay Bank and Florida Bay; and Marco back to Cape Coral with a side
trip into Gordon Pass and the harbor at Naples.

Excellent! Thanks for posting these pics

Fair Skies
Doug King