Little Shark River

We covered 47.14 NM in 6.5 hours with an 8:06 AM departure time to reach little Shark River our jumping off point before crossing Florida Bay to Marathon. Once we turned the corner of Coon Key we found the breeze and chop in our face which stayed that way for most of this open water leg, although it did die down around lunch time.  We came up the Little Shark River and found a quiet corner to drop anchor for the evening. Our first attempt at anchoring found  MS undecided between a strong tide current and an opposite dying breeze resulting in a dance around the anchor. Sounds like fun for her but very unsettling for us as we did not care about doing 360 circles. Time to try a different spot with less current, Yeah, right, did we mention we are in a river? 

This is a part of Florida that not many get to see. We are at the west / north west end of Ten Thousand Islands that is part of Everglade National Park.  It will be just us and the mosquitos and the no-seeums.

We tried our Sun shower and ran inside for cover as the flying bugs spotted us. The night came and it was an eerie feeling as we were all by ourselves in this desolate place and the darkest of nights. Hold me tight honey!!!