Cayo Costa beach bum, American Oyster Catcher

We left Ding Darling a little after 9am heading across the "miserable mile" (a sometimes difficult to navigate narrow cut through shallow water) and then up the Caloosahatchee River arriving at the "between the bridges" anchorage next to downtown Ft Myers at 12:45. We had the good fortune that the tide was coming in which added a pleasant half knot or so to our cruising speed.

It was all motoring. The morning breeze was very light and mostly on the nose all the way.

We may have had our last sail on Jascat yesterday running down Pine Island Sound. The rest of this trip will see us heading northeast following the Okeechobee Waterway. The weather forecast for the next week has the wind mostly out of the east or northeast and very light. We'll probably have to motor the whole way.

One more word. What do a couple of Texans do when they come into a new port? They look for the closest Mexican restaurant of course. Downtown Ft Myers has a good one, Los Cabos. The resort style shopping in the newly renovated downtown is pretty good too. And they have a Starbucks. What more can you ask.