Because of my broken wrist, and then because of our starboard engine, we extended our stay in Key West a bit, but that means we will have to move the boat around a bit. The first place we are moving her is Oceanside Marina, which is right across an apparent stretch of open water from the Navy marina we're in, but... not really. These are shallow turtle grass beds and sandbars, so we actually have to go out the channel from this marina to marker 3, turn right, head for the next channel southward's marker 3, and then come back in -- 3.5 miles, although it looks to be 1.2 miles as the kite-boarder flies ;-)

Anyway, that is what we are doing today and tomorrow - first, shuffling sideways to the slip beside the one we had been occupying (the Next Boat scheduled for this slip has arrived), then tomorrow morning first thing, heading out to Oceanside so Mark can work on the engine with easier access. We stay overnight at Ocean View (so goes the plan) and return to the Navy marina for a few more nights. As plans go, about standard -- where mechanical stuff is concerned, I never weight the probability of things "going exactly according to plan" at more than about 33%.

Thing is, we used Google to make sure we had to go that way, no channel across existed... yup. You can see all that easily from Google maps! And the data are 2011 USGS satellite data. Next, we checked out the marina itself, and you can see individual boats, awnings, masts, booms, and you can read the logo painted on the roof of the main building: "Key West Oceanside Marina"... from space! How cool is that?!


More later, after we accomplish the "sideways slip shuffle" (sounds like a form of line-dancing... oh, wait, it IS... we take the lines and do a little dancing, with the wind blowing us in the correct direction).