We arrived at Jeff and Suzanne Wright’s home in Treasure Island yesterday after a slow 20-plus mile transit from Caladesi.
The exit from Caladesi at times showed as little as 0.8 feet under our keel at the time of the lower of two daily high tides. However, it was not until just before turning into this canal that I ran lightly aground while idling along. One must stay close to the seawalls and away from the island in the middle of John’s Pass.
We managed to tuck our two boats into Jeff’s pier by having Calypso moor along the outside end of the pier (head of the pier to us nautical types) and Seminole nosed in toward shore in the slip along side the pier. Our stern is pointed at about their amidships location.
Suzanne took the ladies out for dinner and Jeff took Jim and me to a local yacht club to see a presentation by a well-known nautical author.
Today the women are going to Publix in the afternoon, and we guys are headed to West Marine for a couple of items.
Our plan for tomorrow is to head to Longboat Key to see if we can find room in an anchorage for lunch. Then we will stay the night or head for Sarasota a few mile miles along the way.
