MVGUMBO: Englewood Beach to Sanibel Island Marina

We pulled away from the Chadwick Cove dock at 9:15 this morning, it is not a real long way today so there was no need to rush. The weather was fine as it has been since we left Biloxi a few weeks ago. There is a possibility of thunderstorms Tuesday so we'll keep an eye on that.
Not long after we started out we came onto a ferry boat landing on the ICW. There is a boat on each side of the canal, when they have several cars on board they pull out simutaneously turn around then drive past each other to land on the opposite side of the canal from where they started. They carry 5 or 6 cars plus pedestrians and they criss cross each other all day every day.
We cruised South down Lemon Bay it is a long bay but narrow. Next on the way was Boca Grande, the water there was beautiful. Boca Grande is billed as the Tarpon Capital of the World! I don't know when the season is but there were a lot of fishing boats out today. We had about a half hour wait at the only bridge that we needed an opening from. Then when we got to the marina they had to shuffle some boats around to make space for us, although I had made a reservation and confirmed it this morning. Not a problem we circled around outside the marina for about 25 minutes till they gave us the go ahead to enter. It is a nice place that we have been to several times, It is near a great shelling beach and has a good but always crowded restaurant on site.
I noticed the price of diesel here $4.59 a gallon. I don't need any just yet but hope I'll be able to find it cheaper than that when I do!
miles today, 46

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