Adventures of Boreas: Days 167 through 173 – at Snook Bight Marina

We are enjoying our time here at Snook Bight. We used the rental car to do some more errands and also to take a trip to Sanibel and Captiva Islands. John and Rita and Mac (John and Rita’s standard poodle) joined us on the trip to Sanibel and Captiva. These are beautiful islands and we enjoyed doing a bit of shopping while we were there. It was amazing the number of homes that were for sale – we picked up a real estate guide and learned that even the small, cottage type homes on the water were selling for over $1 million and often much, much more than that. We didn’t do any beach walking as the beach parking lots are very tiny and were already full with other cars. Perhaps someday we’ll have a chance to stay at the marina on Sanibel and explore the island more fully.

Boreas has been decorated for Christmas with lights and a tiny tree. The lights are snowflake shaped blue and white LED lights around the outside rails and green and red blinking lights under the upper canvas. It is fun to have decorations on the boat and it makes us feel quite festive.

We took John and Rita to the airport on Thursday for their trip back home to Toronto. They will return to Fort Myers Beach on January 3. We also volunteered to dog-sit for Mac while they are gone, so we are experiencing life with a dog on board. The tides and the fixed dock make getting him to shore a challenge at low tide, but we are getting better at it (and so is Mac).

We returned the rental car on Friday. Estero Island has been getting busier and busier with holiday traffic, so we think we made a good decision to keep the car for just the one week. The locals had been telling us how busy the beach would get between Christmas and New Years, but I don’t think we fully believed them until we saw it ourselves. The two lane road that runs from one end of the island to the other is often a parking lot now.

Snook Bight’s biggest claim to fame (in our opinion) is the amazing amount of rack storage they have for boats and the size of the boats they can accommodate. They have space for 201 boats with space for boats as large as 42’ in length, with 18’ overhead height and beams of 15’. To be able to move these boats in and out of their racks, they have the largest boat forklift we have ever seen. Boats as big as Boreas are stored inside and picked up with a forklift – amazing!

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