We got up at 4 AM this morning...started the generator, made coffee, readied the wind vane, and sails, and raised the anchor.
We went out the Lake Worth Channel and into the Atlantic at 5 AM...and turned south...
Dawn on the water...is always a special time....
We decided that we'd sail closer to the coast this trip... usually we're out a few miles.. We did find a very favorable counter current to the Gulf Stream.. Moving South... BUT..........
Wow!!!!! .. what a "show" traveling close to the coast... talk about "traffic" !!!!
There were other cruisers, fishermen galore, dive boats by the dozens, commercial boats, and even kayakers; Oh My!
(Now what the heck is a lone kayaker doing 2 miles from the coast???)
All in all, it was a nice trip around on the outside today...
I did get to talk to one of the dive boat captains... as I was going by on dive site.
I asked him what they were diving "ON"... They were drift diving... but over several coral reefs... as several reefs all lined up with the current that was carrying us along too...
The winds were very fluky 5 to 15 knots, ... some rain squalls which brought higher but sporatic winds,
... some wind "on the nose" while it was making up it's mind what to do... but all in all... a fairly nice day, on the Atlantic.
We're now anchored at the northern end, (but not IN), Sunset Lake... (near the Julia Tuttle Bridge), Miami Beach.
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