It is another beautiful morning in the keys. We have a couple of things to do before we go out to the reef. Beth shoots some pictures of our surroundings including the "beautiful beach" as detailed in their brouchure. We were there yesterday, and from our perspective, it was more like packing gravel which they use before they pave a hughway. We motor over to the marina to do a pump out and get some water.
We leave the marina ahead of some of the "tour boats" outbound to the reefs. We are against an incoming tide this morning and all but the 35 foot wide cat pass us. Once out in the ocean we head for Mollasses Reef, which is about 6 miles out. The "tour" boats leave us in the dust. We reach the reef and find a 2 to 3 foot swell running. We try to get a mooring several times and everytime we miss or the line gets ripped from my hand. At that point I realize that the swell is too big and that we shouldn't try and moor the boat. We leave and then note that we burned over 1/2 a tank of gas just getting to the reef. However, upon motoring north, we pick up the following sea, which helps our fuel consumption, plus adding the sails makes it a non-issue.
We are trying to get to Biscayne Bay. We look at a couple of choices, Angelfish Creek, Broad Creek and Caesar Creek. I decide on Caesar Creek, as Beth read in one of the guides that Angelfish Creek's depths are sketchy, and Caesar Creek looks the deepest of all of them. We enter the creek and all of a sudden we are getting depths of 1.5, 2, etc., but determine that the sand in the water from the outgoing tide (of course) caused the misreading of the depth sounder. It is a nice ride through the creek, and there is a park station where you can tie up.
We exit into Biscayne Bay with some skinny water, and cruise north to where we drop the hook for the night. We cook dinner and turn in as it has been a long day.
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