Saturday - January 7

We are in the Keys!!!  Greetings from our anchorage near Islamorada on a spectacular January day!     Lots of frolicking dolphins swimming along with Catrina, dodging oodles of crab pots and did stop a short time at Gilbert's Marina in Key Largo, but they had no mechanic available and no electricity - said it comes and goes as they are doing remodeling.    Everything and everyone.......so laid back down here!    Decided, since Catrina was running ok at 8 mph, we would just keeping chuggin' on.    We still don't know the definite cause of this anti-freeze spurtin (now doing it on BOTH engines), but cruising at slower speeds works just fine, so?    We have a mechanic ready in Marathon to take a look and analyze the situation.  He's a Yanmar diesel guy, so.....hope we get some answers as this is quite perplexing to Mark, the mechanics yesterday and of course, me!!!   Ha.....no knowledge of this stuff other than looking at and hearing all about the ins and outs of these engines is totally Greek and scares me big time!!!

Well..............how about the Navy capturing those Somali pirates who are now prisoners aboard the USS Stennis?     Been reading stories on Google, the New York Times (a reporter has been on board the Stennis) and YouTube.     This was quite the dramatic rescue!!!

Here are a few photos from our day...

  

Beautiful sunrise as we are leaving South Miami

The Captain of my Ship

Swimming dolphins alongside Catrina

And then spectacular sunset

Plus a full moon - sooo pretty over the water on a very quiet, peaceful evening with boats anchored

 here and there