Key West - We meet Captain Ron!

 

The real Captain Ron!

One of our favorite movies of all time aboard Fleetwing is Captain Ron, especially with grandkids along. We’ve watched it dozens of times. Today, Captain Ron paid us a visit! He used to run Captain Ron Yacht Charters out of Ft Lauderdale before he semi-retired. He’s in Key West at the moment and he dropped by to pay us a visit. http://www.captainronyachtcharters.com/. He wanted to stay in Key West but couldn’t find a slip so they are at Stock Island at the moment. 

We had a visitor on our swim platform that decided to stay, to his detriment

We awoke this morning to a Maine fog! It was clear in the harbor so it wasn’t entirely like a Maine fog but out in the bay, it looked pretty thick. I can only remember less than a dozen times in 10 years when I’ve seen fog in the Keys. It burned off by noon and we even turned on the air conditioning but then it moved in again and turned cool by 4:00 pm. 

Ann got her shopping itch scratched. No crowds here in the afternoon and it’s wide open. 

Ann ventured out this afternoon and even went in some of the nearby stores. We’ve tried to be extremely cautious due to Covid and so far it has worked. In the harbor here, the wind constantly blows and most of the restaurants and bars are outdoors or at least have wide open doors to the outside with plenty of ventilation. One wonders whether we will always feel this way about crowds, we’ve been so conditioned over the past two years. 

Ann continues to paint and work on email and writing articles for Waterway Guide. The next challenge is doing taxes remotely. All tax forms for investments can be downloaded, all filled out, so it’s easier than it used to be. Meanwhile, we’re just enjoying the warm weather.