Burnt Store Marina to Sanibel Marina

A good place to ride on a rough day

It’s about the weather!!! Last night the front that has dumped snow on the rest of the southeast made its debut in Florida. We learned tonight that Florida is the only state of the 50 states with no snow. So please do not hear this post a complaining, rather another lesson in making weather related decisions. Strong southwest winds follow by rain and a wind shift to the northwest. After the front rolled through, the cold northwest winds began to blow. We wanted to travel to Sanibel since Kim, Scott and Autumn will leave on Saturday, schedules can be a problem when the weather is less than great.

The first ten miles across Charlotte Harbor we faced beam seas that rocked the boat and sent water splashing up on the fly bridge. The balance of the trip was mostly downwind with less rocking but some swaying back and forth. The wind was to taper off in the afternoon, but when we landed two deck hands could not move the boat back to the dock pulling on the stern line. Scott and I jumped off and together with the deck hands we were able to secure the boat to the dock. Winds estimated to be 30 mph at times.  A hard day all around, you make the best decisions you can with the available information and some days are harder than others.

We had supper at Grandma Dots restaurant, right here at the marina a classic old Florida dining establishment. The weather should be better tomorrow and we hope to do some shelling on the famous Sanibel beach.

Autumn helping out on the bridge

A Burnt Store Pelican

Name that Palm, 3 people have given it three different names