The Google computers that run blogspot with this blog have been having a problem running the videos. All the blogs are reporting "video unavailable" for a week or so. If you tried to watch my scuba videos, just try in the next few days.

We're still just living in Marathon, enjoying ourselves, fishing, watching sunsets, Kathy's knotting, reading, etc. Temps have been 75 to 80 most days and sunny to partly sunny, although there's supposed to be a 30% to 50% chance of rain for the next 3 days. We have been intending to cruise to Key West, but I have been waiting for 2 solid days of low wave forecasts on the north side of the keys so we can anchor out on the Gulf side and look for lobsters. The weather and wave forecasts don't look good for that yet. We drove to Key West, just 50 miles down the keys, to see a movie (Up in the Air), get our favorite mango bread from a local artisan bakery and stop at the Parrot-dise Grill for a lobster reuben sandwich.

I have been fishing off our aft deck almost every morning. It's almost luxury fishing because when the tide is going out, you just drop a hook with a live shrimp off the aft deck and the tide takes it out into the channel while you enjoy your coffee and mango bread toast after breakfast. I usually catch 2 or 3 fish per hour for 2 or 3 hours. I've caught lots of Creval Jacks, pinfish (baitfish), ladyfish, one Pompano, this nice little Spanish Mackerel or Cero, and threw them all back. Kathy didn't want me to make shashimi from the Spanish Mackerel. There are a few sheepshead here, so I may try oysters to catch one sometime, but the oysters on the docks here are a different kind than up north and are very thin.

We'll be in the keys until February 10 to 15, depending on weather to run across the gulf back to Marco Island and then Sarasota.