Adventures of Boreas: Day 162 – Cabbage Key to Snook Bight Marina, Fort Myers Beach, FL

Today is a short travel day – less than 25 miles. We will travel through Pine Island Sound and then across San Carlos Bay, ending up on the land side of Estero Island. We have not had breakfast out in quite awhile, so we decide to have breakfast at the Cabbage Key restaurant before we depart. As with the other meals we have had here, the food is excellent.

We have seen more boat traffic today than we have seen in a long time. We have seen runabouts, fishing boats, cruisers and sailboats. We even saw a small barge and tow; the barge was transporting a large Penske rental truck (see picture below). We are guessing that they were headed to Useppa Island which has lots of homes on it, but no bridge to the mainland. It is nice to see other boaters out enjoying this beautiful area.

We arrived at Snook Bight Marina in Fort Myers Beach just after 1:00pm. We will be staying here until mid-January. We stopped first at the fuel dock so we could look at the facilities and figure out which slip we would be occupying. The dockmaster has a couple of slips for us to check out as we want it to be as easy as possible to get on and off the boat. They have fixed docks here and over a 2 foot tide swing – that can make things difficult for someone with shorter legs. We decide a slip on the far edge of the marina that we would stern into would be best. That gives us access to the boat using either the swim platform or the stairs leading up to the sun porch from the swim platform. Then, depending on the tide, we can hop on and off the boat at the correct height.

This is our first long stay at any one location – we’ll see how we like being at one dock for an extended time.

Miles: 23.3 Bridges: 2 Locks: 0