November 1 2023 Wednesday Day

SO we got up to a beautiful day to head to Ft Myers mooring field. After the hurricane the original mooring field is gone, but they have like 12 mooring balls and two for transients so we got one of the two. Thank goodness. It is close to the Slow speed sign but with a little cinching up of our snubber and chain we were safe from collision with that sign. It was actually a great mooring (26 dollars per night) and we decided to go to Doc Fords to eat that night.

The mooring field has a laundry room with one washer one dryer and its in the hotel across the street from the remodeled bathroom/showers (that happened to open that same day we came to the city). The old system of washers and dryers in the shower building have been replaced with commercial machines used only by the staff of the hotel Matanzas. The hotel manager was very nice and uber and lyft are readily available for transportation if needed. It cost us 15-16 dollars one way to the publix in ft myers, the beach publix was very difficult to get to due to continued construction so the other publix is your best bet.

The dinghy dock was destroyed in the hurricane so we had to tie up at the temporary dinghy dock right sown a canal by a restaurant and right behind to the Matanzas hotel pool . We tied up and climbed from our dingy to the nice board walkway that turned into a beautiful tiled walkway to the back of the hotel to the washroom next to the pool. SOO i brought our portabe chairs to the washroom and man they were comfortable. It took the clothes a long time to dry so we decided to run to doc fords get a timer for a table(one hour to one hour and a half wait) go back to the washroom finish the clothes and on the way back to Docs we got our notification for our table!! hahahahaha He got me to the dock i leaped elegantly from our little boat and ran

OCTOBER 31 2023 TUESDAY

This is the 23rd day of our trip to the Caribbean.

We are in Cayo Costa in a cool little hurricane hole, we arrived at around 5:30 AM to the Boca Grande inlet and luckily no one was in our little hole. We have been traveling for app 48 hours from Panama City Beach / St Andrews departing PCB at 6am so we could configure our new wind vane in bay. So you have to turn the boat in two complete circles to reset the vane. I wonder what the other boaters thought we were doing😂😂. Big sailboat turning circles in the middle of the harbor!

After that we headed off into the big blue ocean toward Clearwater. It was a little wonky at first but then eased up and we decided to keep traveling to the Fort Myers area since we had a good window. After arriving the front with the strong winds moved in but we are tucked away in this little hole. So nice and peaceful.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE