Total Miles Traveled 1198
The marina at Clearwater is conveniently located next to
downtown with shops, restaurants, and a trolley stop just outside the marina
gate. We took the trolley to Dunedin and Tarpon
Springs spending the day visiting the local shops, a museum, and taking
advantage of fresh seafood for lunch.
Several fishing boats were coming into Tarpon
Springs.
It appeared that most of the sponge boats were docked,
but we saw very few nets of sponges drying.
Last year several of the boats were full of sponges. We’re not sure if we were there on the day
before the boats were going back out, or the harvest isn’t as productive as
last year.
We left Clearwater Saturday morning and traveled only 10
miles to an anchorage off the ICW. We
had a few items to check off on our boat “to do” list and then we took the
dinghy to one of the local restaurants near us for dinner. We also saw a stingray a few times swimming
around the boat, it was camera shy because every time we would see it and I
would grab the camera, it would disappear.
We were anchored here Saturday and Sunday and completed quite a few
items on our list. We have had great
weather, 80’s during the day and 60’s at night.
On Monday we made another short cruise on the ICW to
Gulfport, Florida….almost a suburb of St Petersburg. This is a well protected marina where we will
leave the boat for two weeks while visiting family near Cocoa, Florida for the
holidays.
This will be our last blog update in 2016; we hope
everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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