Our crossing from Bimini to Miami was long, very long and very uncomfortable. The sun rise was beautiful and waters fairly calm - the Great Bahama Banks which lie between the Berry's and Bimini are shallow so even in the dark we had no problem finding an anchor site. There is little in the way of plant material there so there are few fish and no birds.
When we came around to the eastern side of the Bimini's the wind picked up great sailing. Then the Gulf Stream, the waves were topping out at 5' south to north, and an east to west wind chop that quickly made life miserable for over 5 hours. We watched the sun set with still 3 hours until we would reach our chosen anchor site for the evening. It is hard to believe that just over a mouth ago we were doing this in reverse, leaving in the dark to arrive in Bimini.
At 10 PM we finally dropped anchor had left over chicken and slept until the fishing boats started to leave around 5 AM.
We looked at possible Marinas, Dinner Key is the largest, but we called Grove Isle Marina and luckily one of the owners was gone and renting out his slip. This is a wonderful lay over for the night. We called a Cab and Charles, took us to the port, waited and then drove us to Enterprise to get a car. Next stop Wendy's, Barnes and Nobel then grocery shopping.
We are going out for dinner tonight.
Tomorrow we will anchor out then start south down the keys.
More later
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| Sun rise in the Atlantic Ocean |
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| Sunset on Miami |
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| I missed birds in the Bahamas though when you do see markers they are clean |
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| the last of my collection from the Bahamas |
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| Pelicans, I missed them |
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| This bridge almost looks like jail bars . |
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| road leading to our Marina |
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| Million Dollar Mile - the center is lined with these massive trees. |
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| the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens |
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