Headed to the Shark River

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Early Friday morning, May 30th, we decided to head out from Naples Yacht Club and head toward the Shark River. The Shark River is on the lower west coast of the Everglades, so as you can imagine, there are a lot of mangroves. It is truly beautiful there. The journey would take just about all day, as it is about 60 miles south of Naples.

No sooner did we leave the channel in Naples and head into the gulf, but we saw a set of large dolphins swimming literraly 2 feet along side our boat. We tried desperately to capture their picture. Not sure it went so well.

Later that afternoon we saw a large thunderstorm off in the distance. We heard a little bit of thunder, but the storm never actually passed over us. We got just a tiny bit of sprinkle.

We anchored pretty far off the mangroves, taking cue from 2 other sailboats. We grilled out, listened to Jimmy Buffet and watched a gorgeous sunset.

All in all, just another day in paradise!

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Photos

The Anchorage at Shark River, Everglades
2 other boats joined us for the evening!

Dolphin
Dolphin swimming along side Distant Drum

Traveling Along the Shark River
A view from the dingy

Josh Relaxing
What else is there to do when you are 9?