Eta, a near miss for Punta Gorda in early November, almost pushed the sea over our seawall and into our backyard. Cayo Costa was not so lucky; the park's floating dock was damaged. We took advantage of our nice weather to run down to Pelican Bay November 20th to find the floating dock surrounded with yellow tape.
Upon calling the ranger, Joanne found that we could use one of the slips on the fixed pier. This was our first time to dock at the park dock other than by dinghy. We chose a slip next to the floating dock that we soon learned that the tour boats were now using. Not a problem as they were not operating that day. Before we left a few hours later, the rangers had affixed a "Service Boats Only" sign for the slip.
After riding over to the beach, we walked about a mile along the beach. You can see the line shells washed far up on the sand in the photo below. After walking back to the dock, we left to anchor in Pelican Bay for a beautiful sunset and cool evening.
The wind picked up to put white caps on lower part of Charlotte Harbor for a breezy ride back home on Saturday morning.
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Lickity Split at Park Dock
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Many Shells Newly Washed Up on Beach
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Driftwood On the Beach
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Sunset from Anchorage
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| Sunset from Anchorage |
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