Start the Intracoastal Waterway, 3 firsts

Woke up to a Beautiful sunny day with light breeze to cool things off a bit. Had 3 firsts today, First bridge opening ("love your accent"  the nice bridge control lady said on VHF) First running out of water (grounding) took my eye of ball while checking out a nice trawler on a private lift, strayed out of channel, took about 5 min of wiggling to get off, and Third thing ran in the ICW for the first time. We are now anchored up in Pelican Bay, near Boca Grande - Charlotte Harbour, where the rich and famous stay and spend up big, needless to say that's why we are anchoring out. We have the aircon on and a beer and glass of wine is going down well. This first part of the ICW reminded us of the Gold Coast broadwater - mangrove lined banks interspersed with lovely homes. We had a feeling (false) of great power asking the bridge master to stop all traffic and open up the bridge  to allow us to pass through.To Cape Coral tomorrow, near Ft Myers, a contact has offered us her private dock for the night( or two)Should be a good stop off.

Our first bridge

Our first opening bridge (luv the accent)

Nice Homes

 

Showing our Flag