Day 193 – Snook Bight Marina to Naples City Dock - January 15, 2012

Moving again!  At 10:00am we threw off the dock lines and left Snook Bight (our home for the past month) to head further south down the coast of Florida.  We are excited to be moving again, exploring new ports and seeing new sights.  We are easing back into traveling and have just over 30 miles to travel today.  Both the boat and the humans seem to be fine after the long period of inactivity.  We did discover that the speedo (speedometer) isn’t working quite properly and suspect that its paddlewheel got “gunky” while we sat without moving for so long.  Checking it out has been added to Fred’s “to do” list.

The trip up Naples Bay to the city dock was amazing.  The homes along this bay are absolutely beautiful and the boats cruising up and down the channel are beautiful as well.  We fueled up when we arrived and then decided we would grab a mooring ball instead of pulling into a slip.  We have not yet stayed the night on a mooring ball during this trip and the mooring field here is very well protected so we thought we’d give it a try.  With a bit of coordination using Boreas’ dinghy we were able to get both Brandy IV and Boreas secured. 

             Miles: 32.2      Bridges: 1        Locks: 0

the tide was quite low as we headed out from Snook Bight Marina

this is the ocean side view of Snook Bight - they are to the right
of the two tall buildings, behind the orangish building - you can
just see the top of their grey roof

this beautiful sailboat was leaving from Naples as we
approached the harbor entrance

beautiful home along the channel up Naples Bay

this one kind of reminded us of Hawaii

another beautiful home

Boreas and Brandy IV on their mooring balls

Boreas on a mooring ball at Naples City Marina

Rita, Mac and John heading to shore