Upper Keys Sailing Club. Key Largo, FL
We pulled up anchor in 6 ft of clear water and motored into Upper Keys Sailing Club marina. There are no finger docks, just 2 posts and the slips are very narrow. We have a 12 1/2ft beam and it is about 13ft. We have two smashed fenders between the boat and the posts. Getting off the boat is a bit of an acrobatic task. You climb out the bow sprit and climb over the anchor and hope you are close enough to step on the dock without falling in. It is private clu but allows transients when space is available.
It is a walk of a few blocks to Wendys, and the Holiday RV supply store. So we ate lunch and Lee went to get the cooking propane tank topped off. Tomorrow we will walk in the other direction to Walgreens to get a Rx for me and to a laundromat to do our clothes. Dread toting the clothes a mile to the laundromat and back. We only plan to spend 2 nights here. It is a flat $50 instead of by the foot fee. We are one of the bigger boats here.
While we were waiting for the sun to set and sitting on the deck I heard a sound that sounded 1/2 way between a bark and a cough. I thought there was an animal on the sail boat beside us. ( 6 to 10 ft away) It was a dolphin swimming between us and the other boat blowing water each time he came up. He did not seem afraid of us at all. Later 3 manatees came to check us out. One had a big chunk out of its tail. They were in 5 ft of water both beside the boat and directly under our swim platform. They never seem shy around people. These were particularly large ones. They would only stick their nose up to breath but with the water being so shallow and clear we had a long time to observe them.
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