Key Lime Pie

We are definitely in the Keys! Every restaurant and coffee shop claims to have the best key lime pie in town (or on the Keys)- award winning. We did have a really good slice of key lime pie with an excellent cup of coffee the other day, but I forget the name of the joint - I'll have to get back to you on that one. We've been having a great time here - even though it's been just a llittle chilly - 55 - 65 degrees most of this week. Tomorrow promises to be back into the 70's. The wind had also been kicking up the seas, so we haven't been able to go out diving this week.

But what we have been doing is socializing. There are 226 moorings in the harbor and they are all curisers! Marathon is a cruisers' paradise, but maybe we've been here too long??? Tonight when we went to the Dockside to see Joe Mama perform, a nice gentlement named Joe helped us tie up our dinghy. When he saw the name on the dinghy he said, "Oh, the infamous John Ray!" Well, maybe we've been on the Marathon Cruisers' Net too much anyway. (Steve needs to stop listening to the trivia session - which is a very long story that I'm not going to get into now.) Plus, Michele asked if anyone had an extra solar, all around white light, (for the dinghy or the cockpit when at anchor). You know those lights that you use on your walkway or in your garden? Since these lights come in multiple packs, I thought maybe someone had an extra one. Well noone did, but turns out quite a few people wanted one. So, off we went to Home Depot to buy 2 six packs of these lights to share the cost with 10 other cruisers which we distributed last night at the meet and greet. Well, we sure got to know even more cruisers - in case we haven't met too many already.



So lets see, besides seeing the Murray's again, we met Cheryl and John on Windrifter. We first met them up at Solomon's Island, Maryland. They are originally from Massachusets (south shore), but have been living up in Sebago, ME for the past 30 years. After meeting them, they introduced us to Bertha and Roy who are from Attleboro, MA. We also met Eddie and Kendra on Degage' from Scituate, and Glen , originally from North Quincy but lives on the south shore on Gandolf (an IP 350 which was up in Hingham right across from John Ray). The Great Catsby also made an appearance here in Marathon, but already left to head to the Bahamas - that is Rich and Carol from Point Judith, RI. We know them from looking at their IP 380 for sale a couple of years back before they bought their catamaran. Back in Hampton, VA we saw them again. So there's been lunches, dinners, happy hours, and football game drinks and appetizers keeping our calendar quite full. There are also several other IP cruisers that we met too, including Lauri and Jim from Kismet, Butch and Gretchen on Lucidity and Ileanous (didn't get their boat card yet and not sure how to spell their names-they're French - I'll get back to you on that one). Their are also many, many more people we've met here, but it would take me all night to list them all. Besides, you'd probably be bored reading it since you don't know any of these people anyway. But let's just say, this cruising thing is pretty cool. We like it a lot.

Here is the link to the latest pictures: http://www1.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=278786653/a=102133856_102133856/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink