Day 179, February 5th, 2010
Ah! Back to normal! Wind had clocked around and was back on the nose. We motored to Tarpon Basin on Key Largo. It looks small on the chart but is in fact large and shallow. We anchored in 7 feet, with quite a long dinghy ride to the municipal dock.
However, we had a nice afternoon with a long hike to West Marine. Met a nice lady there who gave us all a ride to the shopping mall a good 3 miles back the other direction. Had a hot dog and an ice cream in a little cafe and then found our way back to the dinghies in the dark! We didn't get back to the boats till 8:00 p.m. A late night out for us!!!
It was windy when we got back to the boat. The basin is so open there wasn't much protection.
The chart shows the bottom to be coral, grass and sand. We had held all day but sure enough dragged at about 8:00 p.m. Moved up in the dark and reanchored. No harm done but made us nervous. We put the anchor alarm on on the GPS. Ended up on anchor watch till the wind dropped around 4:00 a.m. Not the best of nights!!!
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