We cruised out in the Gulf instead of the ICW because the waves were only about 1 ft. in the Gulf. It probably made the trip somewhat faster too, because there are no bridges and go-slow areas. We did take the ICW 15 miles to the Venice inlet and went out from there and back in at Boca Grande inlet. Both are very easy, well marked inlets.
After we dropped the hook, we dinghied into the beach at the park here. It's an inshore beach hwere few people go because the park has a walk-through to the big gulf beach on the other side of this island. It was nice, because we had it all to ourselves. Of course, Kathy brought back seashells for her candle glass on the aft deck.
This is a very nice anchorage where we have anchored before, but there's always something new. This evening on the way back from the park near sunset, the water had turned to glass and we're the only boat in this end of the large anchorage. We saw a pod of dolphins feeding and shut off the dinghy motor and just floated by while 4 or 5 dolphins swam and surfaced within about 20 or 30 ft. of us. You can hear their breath blow out and breathe in clearly and see how easily they surface, breathe and disappear. They had no interest in us, just concentrating on whatever thy were finding in 6 ft. of water in this little bay.
The sunset was pretty, but it was just the sun going down behind the mangroves of the barrier islands here. After sunset, the dolphins swam all around Nonchalance, usually about 50 yards away, continuing to feed. We felt like we were interlopers in their world somehow.Tomorrow, we're going south to Marco Island where we'll leave the boat and drive home to see some snow and for Christmas through New Year's in Saint Charles, IL.
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