Marathon - March 16

We were able to sleep in this morning. No need to get up and get moving. That was nice. Bob and Margaret left about 9:30 this morning. We re-set our anchor, then took off in the dinghy for a ride. We looked around the bay and found quite a few interesting boats. There are a lot of live-a-boards here. You can tell by looking at the boat. Click to get a closer look at the catamaran. Note the pots of cactus.



We tied up at Jeanne and Jerry’s boat (we met them last night when they visited Bob & Margaret). They had offered to let us leave our dinghy at their boat to get closer to the grocery store. From their boat it was about 15 minutes walk each way and was hot.

It is a small world. As we were in the dinghy coming back to the boat we saw the boat Samana, from Lake City. Art Howard and Jean Harris weren’t there at the time. Then, after unloading our groceries and on our way to the seafood festival, we saw the boat Amelia Rose, also from Lake City. Lloyd and Carolyn Heim were aboard and we talked for a while before continuing to the festival. There we dined on conch fritters, conch soup, beer and wine.

On our way back we stopped at Amelia Rose and Samana and invited them to our boat for drinks and snacks. They accepted and we had a very nice time.