Marathon, month of February

 February, 2022

After the three weeks we spent in Key West, we settled in a private club in Marathon for the month of February.  We love Key West so much, and have spent 2-3 months there for several years in a row.  Consequently, we have many favorite spots, and in our three weeks there we tried to hit them all!   We went out for at least one and sometimes 2 meals a day – and spent lots of money! 

A private club in Marathon was recommended by friends Kevin and Sandy Tucker.  It is called Harbour Cay Club.  There are only 24 slips, and each has a different owner.  The facilities are terrific, everything we needed, and the price is roughly half what other marinas are charging!  The group of owners treated us like part of their family, and we have thoroughly enjoyed our stay here.  We have gotten some (not all, not ever all!) of the maintenance chores that Dan had planned.  We had driven our car from home down to Fort Meyers, where we had left the boat at friends Dave and Barbara Doyle’s dock.  Once settled in Marathon, we rented a car one way to Fort Meyers and drove back there to retrieve our car.

It was wonderful having a car for this month, even though we now have to figure out a way to move it up the coast for our next trip home.  We think we have it planned – toward the end of our stay in Marathon, we will drive the car to the Miami airport and leave it in long term storage.  We believe we should be in Jacksonville by end of March.  We’ll fly from Jax to Miami, retrieve our car and drive it home.  We need to be home by April 6 for doctor’s appointments.

I haven’t taken many pictures in Marathon, mostly sunrises and sunsets!  It’s been nice just to stay put and relax.  We used our dinghy some.  For about a week, we endured extremely high winds, and the boat did lots of rocking and rolling!  Folks in the marina helped to get the boat tied securely and even loaned us a very large fender to keep the boat from being damaged.