We're in Sarasota at our favorite marina, Marina Jack's. It's right downtown so you can walk to almost everything, although we have our car here too.

We cruised here through the bays and ICW past lots of beautiful homes on the ICW side, stopping to anchor overnight at the Cayo Costa beach park.









We also went past Cabbage Key supposedly about which Jimmy Buffet wrote "Cheeseburger in Paradise". It's an interesting place to go, but too cold for a long dinghy ride from the anchorage.







The dolphins surfed our wake 6 or 7 times. You've probably seen my videos of them jumping in the wake plenty, so here I tried to get them "eyeing" us. They will surf the wake and come up to about an inch below the surface, swimming on their side so their eye looks up, out of the water to see us. Some are jumping, but one big one eyes us 2 or 3 times in the video clip. It may be hard to see with these small blog videos, but it's very evident what they are doing when seen in person.


We'll be here in Sarasota for about 3 weeks, and then we'll take Nonchalance to put in storage for the hurricane season so we can go home to enjoy Chicago's spring and summer.