Home to Key West

The trip from Charleston to Key West, continually interrupted by spinoffs from the tropicalstorm, now a hurricaine, in the northern Atlantic, delayed us by at least a week, as we hopped in and out of harbors, idly awaited better winds at anchor, and motored down the Intercoastal. Finally on November 9, 2011, we reached Miami and raced through the city to get to our anchorage in Key Biscaynne before sunset. We'd often sailed past Miami, but this was our first venture through the cty and we found the sights intriguing; freighters being loaded, ferries and pleasure craft swept by, and buildings and statues rose up before us.

 

From the anchorage, we could see Miami glistening inthe night, and again in the rosey haze of the morning sun. Two more days of travel awaited us, long days with gusty winds from behind, shifting and bursting from 10-25. We anchored one last night in the keys, near Long Key, just beside the Channel Five bridge, before arriving home again in Key West, greeted by friends and ready for the sunsets in Key West. Off the boat until January, we go to our other lives, this time Christmas in Illinois and an adventure (on land) in New Zealand.