Day 3
Up early again, but able to enjoy a quiet cup of coffee this morning! Harold worked on some small problems in the lazzarette, we took another swim, cleaned up and headed out. We came about 35 miles to Allans-Pensacola Key. It also is uninhabited. We were intrigued because it is supposed to have the ruins of a missile tracking station. We put the dinghy in and tried to find a trail to the ruins. That didn’t happen, and it was threatening rain and we were concerned about our anchorage, so we came back to the boat. Harold tried what the book suggested, to dive on the anchor. That was funny, but it didn’t work, so we pulled it up and reanchored. Things seem to be good now. Tomorrow we will take the dinghy around to the other side of the island in the ocean. (It is protected by the reef.) Harold says this will be the smallest boat he has ever had in the ocean. Previously it was his 14’ boat out Barnegat Inlet in New Jersey.

A sailboat just came into the anchorage we are in and we talked to him on VHF. He is single handing his 44’ boat and we have people in common in the Tampa St. Pete area. Small world!

We had a light supper and were in bed by 9 pm. About 11:30 I woke up to rockin’ and rollin’ so I went up to check the anchor alarm. It was raining in so I buttoned everything up and called Harold. We determined that the anchor was holding and that we were just swinging because of the squall. We sat in the glow of the GPS screen for about a half hour then went back to bed.