Placida (Cape Haze area) again

At 0700, it was nearly still dark when we got underway from Fort Myers City Marina for the nearly three-hour run to Ballard Oil in Fort Myers Beach. The run down the Caloosahatchee River is rather boring as it is too wide, full of silt, and surrounded by low-lying lands.


After fueling Jim headed Seminole up toward Doc Ford’s, a local waterfront restaurant while we dropped down the bay another half mile to “speak” Tom and Wilda Theobald on the Further, which was moored to a ball.

Then we moored outboard of Seminole at Doc Ford’s for an early lunch on the dock.

We departed the area at 1200 and made it to an anchorage we used last month here in Placida. The transit through Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor and Gasparilla Sound we mostly glassy calm in fair air. The water was mostly an attractive lime green, but it was a bit murky making the playful porpoises quickly disappear when they left the surface for deeper water. As predicted, showers were formed inland as we passed close to the barrier islands leaving us dry all day.

Mary and Jackie put together a couple of delicious pizzas that we cooked on the grill as the sunset over our anchorage.

We are looking at a fifty-mile run tomorrow as we plan to bypass Sarasota and continue another ten miles to anchor at Long Boat Key. From Long Boat, it will be an easy 26-mile day to get to the municipal marina at St Petersburg.