Days 234 through 236 – at Marina Del Mar, Key Largo, FL - February 25-27, 2012

We have spent the past three days getting ready for our departure from Key Largo and the continuation of our Loop.  Preparation has included installing the rest of the items we picked up at the boat show.  All the blue courtesy lights are now installed and they look awesome.  Fred has also installed the new vacuum gages on the fuel filters.  He started the engines to make sure everything looked good, but the true test will be once we are actually running with the RPMs up a bit.

We have also been doing a lot of planning.  Fred has had the charts and guidebooks out trying to put together a high level, long-term plan as well as a more detailed plan for the next few weeks.  We are going to travel with Frank and Carrie from Once Around for awhile so we’ve spent time with them pouring over options and talking about where we might want to spend time.  We’ve also spent time talking with our dock mates, Linda and Glenn.  They have traveled up and down the east coast from their home in New Jersey to Florida a number of times and they had great suggestions on their favorite anchorages and marinas.

We have been doing the more basic preparation stuff as well – laundry, shopping, bills, etc.  We are watching the weather and will depart when conditions look right.
 
            Miles: 0           Bridges: 0        Locks: 0

We found this awesome looking jellyfish swimming around near the back of Boreas.

It was not very large, only about four inches across.