Day 201 – at Sombrero Marina, Marathon - January 23, 2012

Today we went shopping for a new bike seat and a shorty wetsuit for Fred.  John had picked up a great bike seat for Rita at a bike and kayak store just a few blocks away, so that was our first stop.  We found a seat and Fred installed it immediately.  Then we headed off to find a dive shop.  The first one was a great shop and the people there were friendly and knowledgeable give us some great tips on where to snorkel.  Unfortunately they didn’t have a very big variety of sizes of wetsuits and we didn’t find anything to fit Fred.  I got brave and tried on a shortly wetsuit, but as with Fred, they didn’t have a size that really fit.

We exited the dive shop and met John in the parking lot.  John was also looking for a few items to enhance his snorkel experience and had heard from two different people that he should try the Discount Dive shop further up the road.  A quick check of the map program on Fred’s iPhone gave us the route and off we went.  The Discount Dive shop was great and we found a shorty wetsuit for both Fred and me along with a bag to hold all our gear.  John was also successful and found all the things he was looking for.

We spent quite a bit of time on our bikes today and Fred was very happy that he had a new bike seat.

We took a dinghy ride in the afternoon and ended up stopping by Tropical Breeze out on their mooring ball.  Barb and Doug have been installing solar panels and Fred wanted to check it out.  This might be something we decided to do on Boreas sometime down the line.  They have also recently installed some vinyl flooring that looks like regular wood flooring and we wanted to check that out as well.  The flooring is beautiful and Barb gave us an extra installation manual so we can find this product again.  Again, Fred has some ideas on where we could use this type of flooring on Boreas.

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the mooring field in Boot Key Harbor

the mooring field in Boot Key Harbor