Day 13 – April 11

We are off for a visit to some friends who are spending a week in Marathon and a trip to Publix for fruits and veggies.  We decided to walk from the harbor to their rental house a few miles (3.5) away.   We both have walked and run that far, but trekking down the sidewalk with 85 degree heat will make it seem longer.  We make it to their house and have some water to re-hydrate.  Before we left, we spoke about going out to snorkel on the Sombrero Reef, about 5 miles offshore, but he was having boat problems where water was coming in and one of his bilge pumps was not working.  I have an old bilge pump that I said he could have and we brought that along.  He was able to pump about 5+ gallons out of his starboard bilge.  We had a nice visit including an encounter with a 2 foot iguana. 

We decided that we would go snorkeling tomorrow.   Before they drove us back to the harbor, we stopped by the dive shop to pick up a couple of things and then they drove us to Publix where we got what we needed and more, including sushi for dinner.  We get back to the boat and it is warm with the afternoon sun, although it is breezy.  We try our new toy, which is a wind scoop, and it works great, so good that Beth had to change seats with me.  We watched another great sunset accompanied by conch horns.  One boat coming back to their mooring had two men blowing their horns on their foredeck.