Stuart Florida

The crew on the good ship Orinoco traveled the pretty waters around the Keys to Marathon where we anchored out and rode the dinghy in to town.  We enjoyed the friendship and new cruisers we met at Marathon as Pat and George had assembled a reunion of Loopers for a get together for hot dogs and collection of dishes brought by the group.
We met many of our Loopers from our meeting at Alton Marina.  We also saw our friends we met on our first trip to Florida Mary and Jim Russell who are still traveling on their boat.
Old abandoned marina in Marathon.  At over 2 bucks a foot to dock, you would think someone would buy it and fix it up.
Picture of Orinoco in the sunset Marathon

Kris and Colleen our son and daughter in law enjoyed the dinghy rides and time on the water but not too fond of the sea trip.

Loopers we met at Alton are here in Marathon

We left after a couple of days there and saw Kris and Colleen off on the island bus back to Key West to catch their flight home to Ft. Collins Colorado.

Off we went to Miami getting an anchorage in the shadow of the city with its bright neon lights and reflections off the water.

A distant rain shower off shore as the day turned to night.

Ofter the evening in Miami we set off north on the Intracoastal waterway through downtown Miami and Ft. Lauderdale enjoying the scenery of expensive homes and huge fiberglass yachts with crews cleaning and getting everything ready to shove off again.

Now we are in the Loggerhead Marina in Stuart, FL spending this month here so we can fix things and rest.  Many of our Looper friends are here as well as those we met in the Bahamas as part of the Royal Marsh Harbour Yacht Club