Colin and Dawn do the Loop: Heading South,to our Favourie Harbour Host.

After we left St Petersburg the Coast Guard
Issued a small craft warning due to a huge
belt of thunders storms heading for us. Mindful
of the last t/storm we were caught in we decided to cut the first day short and stop at the nearest
Marina. Marina Jacks is set up for the I have
lots of money boaters, although their facility's were only average. My neighbour was a 47ft
Nordhaven, and he was nowhere near the most
pricy boat there. At $2.75 a foot guess its conditioning me for the costly Keys. Guess
What, No Storm, windy for about 2 minutes.

Four 350 hp outboards, who needs 1400Hp
to go fishing

Swing Bridge, Bridge Masters are
always cheerful and obliging, this one
he has to control from the centre, must
do a lot of walking

Ospreys and Chicks, we get quite close when
passing and can see chicks in the nests.

Great Murals on back of
Industrial units backing onto
the canal near Venice.(USA)

Big one sitting on the bottom

Very busy Easter Saturday

Burnt Store Marina, best Fuel price on the West Coast
$2.04 Gallon, I filled right up.

The Easter Bunny at Cabbage Key.
Well known stopover, only accessible
by water. has $ Bills stuck on walls
and ceiling, The restaurant picks up
fallen notes and donates to charity.
Approx $10,000 per year.

It was choppy and very windy, up to 20 Knots
the yachts were loving it.

This clown blasted thru the traffic at 25-30 knots
waked everyone.

Arrived at Kitty's dock around
the front was a immaculate
1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass.

Fort Myers is known as the city of trees

Visited the Ford and Edison
Estates at Ft Myers, well preserved homes
and Botanical gardens. Edison was a keen
Botanist and had an extensive lab and
gardens.
This was Henry Fords Holiday home.