Monday morning was fuel-up and water-up at Ballard's (best place to get diesel), then out to sea! Goodbye to Ft. Myers mooring field for a while, anyway.
The weather was beautiful, warm and sunny with just a little rocking and rolling. We were able to put up the genoa for most of the day, and made good time to our first anchorage in the impressive Marco Island bay.
Day two was also beautiful, winds of course not always as predicted, but still some good motor sailing and we made good time. Our anchorage on the second night was outside Shark River (we could maybe have gotten in, but would have waited a looooong time for the tide to come up before we could've gotten out -- we did a light touch on the way out of the anchorage), and after the winds shifted we had a comfortable rock to sleep. On Wednesday, we flew not only the genoa, but the MAIN! Yes, that big white thing we usually use to store dirt daubers! Caught Optimystique with sails flying ahead of us, and had three gorgeous days of travel south.
We're happy to report that even though we saw many, many crab pots on the way (and not all of them out of the usual traffic lanes), we missed them all! Well....we did slice the marker of one in half, but no animals were harmed in the filming or production.
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