We are just realizing that we only have a couple of day left of cruising till January. So sad. It is Wed. the 5th and we left the Crown's Nest after a great breakfast. We only had about 36.4 miles to go today and 5 bridges to go under but they were all 30' to 24'. Again the weather was beautiful and water was calm and we were on another dolphin highway. The Caloosahatchee River was so nice. There were lots of people kayaking and canoeing throughout the river and large folks of birds everywhere. This has been a great section of the intracoastal to travel through. I some times wish we had a bit more time to stop at some of the quaint areas and keys along the way. There were many lovely anchorages along the way that we saw and lots of boats doing just that. We were going to stay at Boca Grande but got a rather cool reception from them when inquiring about dockage so Don suggested that we continue on to Cabbage Key. It is a small family owned island and very quaint. The dock hand was very helpful and looks like he has been there for ever. He mentioned that the bugs were bad at nite so keep everything closed up.
The sunset was shining on the homes across on Useppa Island and looked like an amazing golden glow. We went up to the restaurant for a drink. What a place. Don had mentioned it to me about all the money taped to the walls but you have to see it to believe it. They said that in any given year that over $10,000.00 dollars fall to the floor and the money is collected and given to charities. There had to be well over $100,000.00 dollars on the wall. Sure hope that it is insured well for fire!!!! We made reservations for dinner at 8 and I think there were only 2 other table there. The service and food were amazing and the prices were reasonable.
We signed our dollar bills and tapped them to the wall just like all the other. It was a great day and we will surely miss cruising and stops like Cabbage Key.
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