After spending 4 days at the Key West Bight City Marina we moved to the Sunset Marina on Stock Island. It was a convenient location downtown, but very spendy and no security what ever. First thing we noticed at the City Marina were many boaters had giant padlocks on their power cords. Ross couldn’t find a padlock large enough for our cord so jury rigged a cable around it so if they wanted our cord, they’d have to work for it. It was also recommended to us that we keep our bikes locked up even if we had them on the bow of the boat.
A sunny but still chilly day. We followed the directions emailed to us as to how to enter the marina. They failed to include a simple “do not” statement that would have kept us from hitting bottom. It gets very confusing with markers and where to go sometimes. The sun being out makes it much easier to read the water; where it’s shallow, deep, rocky. And Ross is good at reading the water or we would have been in big trouble. Thank goodness it was just a sand bottom where we where and high tide.
The Sunset Marina is very nice with floating docks. Shortly after arriving we were greeted by the Looper Harbor Hosts here, Janice and Joe of The 5th Quarter.
We rode our bikes to the West Marine store to pick up a part for our grill. Biking is very easy here. No hills, and a wide paved bike path. We came
upon this iguana in the middle of the path. It was maybe two feet long. I know you don’t have any sympathy for us when we complain about the cold weather down here, but this is the effect it has on life down here. I don’t know if it is dead or just torpid. It was trying to gather warmth from the pavement.We rode our bikes to a Publix grocery store for supplies. Thought we’d grab a coffee to warm up before heading back to the marina. We left the bikes where we could see them next to the table and chairs outside a little coffee shop. Hadn’t even ordered yet and we spotted a guy making a bee line to our bikes. (and our groceries and grill part!!!) I scooted back outside and the guy acted like he was just on his way to sit at the table. Right. This guy appeared from no where. Ross came out about 5 minutes later with the coffee and the guy immediately took off. We normally lock the bikes up and even run a cable through the seats. We’ve noticed people riding bikes without seats and figure that’s what happened to them. A bike is the normal mode of transportation around here.
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