Company's coming! Tomorrow night Dave's sister Patti arrives for a visit and then during the March Break his brother Steve and wife Syl will arrive. Exciting for us and we hope for them too. Our first overnight guests since the adventure began!
We are still in Marathon as we await their arrival. We talk to some boaters here who say they arrived three years ago and planned to stay for a week and they are still here. Why? As I mentioned before, it is the most sheltered harbour around so it attracts a lot of boaters. With that comes a sort of community. It kind of feels like summer camp to us, with the long term residents being the camp counsellors and us new arrivals being the wide eyed campers. There is something for everybody. Dave goes to a guitar jam evening, I found a yoga class and Christopher does Phys. Ed with the local home schoolers.
Although the Keys are not known for their beaches there is a nice beach at a community park that we dinghy to some days. When the wind stops howling we take Tiffany Rose out to the reef to snorkel and when we can't go we explore closer to shore from Sea Jay 2 (our dinghy). We have a glass bottom bucket and we've seen some interesting things through it, like the sea star in the picture.
The wind has been howling this week and there are a lot of boats waiting for that elusive window to cross to the Bahamas. The windows have been few and far between this winter. We hear that the Gulf Stream crossing is often more gentle in the spring, so we will consider the trip again in late March before we head north.
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