Venice

Poor weather prevented us from leaving Longboat Key yesterday, so we occupied ourselves with reading and eating lunch and dinner at the two nearby restaurants. We got underway this morning at 0845 for Venice.
This afternoon finds us at the Crows Nest Marina in Venice at a bouncy slip. It took a couple of tries to get into this slip in the high winds, and Jim and Jackie in Seminole ended up alongside the fuel dock. This marina is right near the inlet from the Gulf, and we can see the white caps on it from the boat.

Today’s trip was only about 27 miles long but with a lot of bridges and manatee zones requiring slow speeds. Saw no manatees. They probably fled this cool weather.

Winds were strong from the north, and we had plenty of current pushing us along too. At one point at near idle on both engines we were making over 8 MPH.

While passing through Sarasota, I spied Chip’s boat the Eleohn off to port at a bouncy anchorage. We went over to them and said hi and that we would see them at Dog Island on our way home.

Since the weather is not expected to get any better, and we don’t like bouncing off piers, we will get underway tomorrow for Cabbage Key, about 30 miles south of here.