On the Move to Fort Myers, FL 12/30/05 to 01/04/06

We left Tarpon Springs early Friday morning to meet up with Wade and Susie on "Miss Happ". We planned to cruise down the coast together, for 5 days, toward Fort Myers where we would part ways until spring when hopefully we will meet up again at some point. They are headed to the Keys and we are headed across Lake Ockeechobee hopefully toward the Abacos.

We anchored most nights except for one when a boating friend of Wades helped us secure a spot on a free dock in Venice. The dock was a nice stop so that we could get out and walk and go out for dinner. The anchorages were fun as well. The first night we anchored near Bradenton, the second at Cape Haze, the third was the free dock in Venice and our final stop was at Cape Coral. Wednesday it was a short hop into Fort Myers to stay right downtown at City of Ft. Myers Yacht Basin Marina.