Yesterday, Saturday, we returned our rental car to the Marathon airport and prepared to depart Marathon after our week long stay. We filled the water tanks and emptied the holding tank on Red Pearl, made sure all our handheld electronic devices were charged-up, and checked the weather and made our float plan for the next day. We were ready to get on the move again.
Sunday we departed Faro Blanco Marina at 0830 and headed north. We planned to head for an anchorage at Islamorada but had shorter and longer alternates as we couldn't predict how fast we could travel up the shallows of the AICW waterway.
Most of this section of AICW was 6-foot deep or more but there were several sections down to 5-1/2 foot. This slowed us down only a little so we reached Islamorada around 1330 and decided to keep going. At 1450 after 51.6 miles we reached the Sunset Cove anchorage in Buttonwood Sound at Key Largo, FL and dropped anchor in 6-7 feet of water.
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| Sea birds feeding on bait fish en-route in the AICW. |
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| Red Pearl at anchor at Sunset Cove, Key Largo, FL |
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| Snook's Bayside Restaurant |
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| Our dinghy, Blake Bay |
We lowered our dinghy, "Blake Bay" and went to shore at Snook's Bayside restaurant for happy hour. After eating there we walked to Walgreens for a few necessities. We returned to Red Pearl and settled in for the night. I once again set the anchor watch app on my iPhone to monitor our position all night and sound the alarm if our anchor didn't hold. There was a little breeze during the night causing a little wave slap on our hull, but no worse than we encountered inside the Faro Blanco Marina.
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