Friday, 24 December We left Ft. Myers Beach after a pleasant night’s sleep, with no worries about slipping anchors or high winds. The winds were from the NE so we ran as close to shore as possible, ¾ to 1 ½ miles off, to avoid the worst of the chop. At Marco Island we took the inside passage up the Marco River to Goodland then across Gullivan Bay, anchoring next to Panther Key in the Ten Thousand Islands. Thus we missed the shoals of Cape Romano without having to go several miles out into the Gulf . The Christmas Eve sky was glorious with billions of stars and the Milky Way clearly visible.. Saturday, 25 December The wind died late in the morning, then picked up again in the early afternoon, changing to south. The water
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