Day 36 - May 5

We wake up late as our route today will take us to Matecombe Bight which is near Channel 5 bridge, a short 2 hour trip.  We digny ashore and wander around Islamorada.  We stop at the Hurricane memorial, which is a monument of the people that lost their lives in the Labor Day hurricane in 1935, the lowest pressure hurricane ever reported in the US.   Beth finds some earrings that she had seen in our previous trip and we are back on the boat and headed south. 

We arrive in a nice anchorage, although there are several boats, speed and fishing running through the area.  Another sailboat has anchored a few hundred feet from us.  It is a warm day and I decide to continue cleaning the bottom, which I started in Boot Key.  I had only done the top foot on the outside of the hulls, so I don fins and snorkle gear and have at it.  Even though we have only been gone 5 weeks, there is some slime and little barnacles growing on the bottom.  I finish the port outside and am working on the inside, when I see a 3 foot baracuda crusing under the boat.  I leave the water and afterwards he is gone.  There is still a 1 foot fish still cruising about, and I get most of the hulls cleaned. 

After last nights dinner, we have a light dinner of spinach salad.  We have another beautiful sunset and a moon rise.