The Great Loop

Pensacola to Ft Myers

 

2/1/05 - We're slowing down now that we've reached warmer air and water. This gallery contains our most recent photo posting covering the legs from Pensacola to St. Joes, then Clearwater and on to Ft Meyers Beach. A lot of this was offshore, hence the photo ops were limited.

 

It's not snow

Looking toward the ocean from our Pensacola anchorage.

Ruth and Orell

A hig point of our Tampa Stop, a night at Orell's loft.

Thar be dragons here!

The loft is in an area of artists. The dragon - old computer parts.

St Petes

Traveling a couple miles offshore we traced a coast of condos.

Quaint name

But the area homes were nothing to sneeze at.

Passagrille home

We ducked into Passagrille surrounded by million dollar properties.

Sight seeing

Novel idea, rent a ride and see the homes.

Venice approach

A small fleet of sailboats flutter around the Venice pass.

Englewood Anchorage

Englewood, south of Venice on the ICW, where we anchored for a couple of days.

Hawks?

The island behind our Englewood ICW anchorage was a nesting area for??

The unknown bridge

An abandoned RR bridge caused concerns as the charts had no info on height.

Ft Myers Beach CG

The cutter stands by with turbines running.

The black things?

Machine guns under covers.

AA at Moss Marine

A nice marina just before the bridge.

Mast abeam

Don't know the story - but the boat was just before the bridge.

Tight quarters

Hurricane Charlie damage.

Bridge mooring

Charlie left a wreck at the base of the Beach Bridge.

Lying ahull

Another Charlie victim.

Goin' fishin'

There is quite a trawler fleet at the beach.

Our friends

Dolphin escorts were common in this area.

 

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