Monday we moved to the mooring field, we immediately got visits from two former Dutch Guys, and one told us about a small restaurant on the water “Bonita Bill’s”. It was a really nice place, which we would never have discovered on our own. Tuesday we had a nice sail to Big Carlos Pass, where we anchored of Coon Key. We were landed in dolphin heaven; they were everywhere, jumping as if they were in a show, so great!!!!!!!!!
Tom and Jacques went for a dinghy ride to show Tom how fast it could go, really fast, and discovered around the corner some stores, from where they took some beer home. The next morning we sailed to Sanibel Island and we tried out the spinnaker for the first time. Tom and I went to the beach to do some shelling, he found a very nice one that was still alive, so back on board we cooked it and opened up very nicely.
Back at the mooring we checked out all the side channels, because one of them should have a dingy place and a short walk to food store and library. Luckily there was already a little boat otherwise we would have missed it. You tie to a mangrove and try to step on the mangrove and not next to it, like I did when we came back and smashed our fresh strawberries.
The dinghy and I are still not very good buddy’s, I have blue spots everywhere from getting in and out of the thing, which is by the way called “Alex”, because he was a master in handling that boat. We also took a trip up the Caloosahatchee River which would lead us into downtown Fort Meyers, but the traffic on the water was so busy, that half way we stopped on the water to have lunch and went back to the mooring. As a treat we went to our favorite Bonita Bill’s instead. There was a karaoke event and we enjoyed some really good singers (and of course also some very bad ones).
The time has been flying and today we had to say goodbye to Tom, who had to take a taxi because his flight was very early.
Ria
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