Departing Key West in the early morning was uneventful and remained so for several hours. The winds returned, East 15-20 kts., and the seas built to 4-6'. It was great to finally pass under the 7 Mile Bridge and leave the Gulf, the Hawk Channel, and go inside to the Florida Bay and the ICW.
Passing through the channel a west bound SeaRay was coming dead on for SONATA and a port-to-port passage was proposed, no response . . . the SeaRay continued dead on; five whistles . . . no response . . . finally swerved to port to miss the speeding boat and observed the "captain" at the held watching TV or playing with his cell phone . . . or just standing there asleep . . . an auto-pilot in the hands of a fool can be deadly!!!
Sunset at Shell Key. The sunset occurred three days after a full moon, and, 57 minutes later the water around SONATA was brightened by the presence of ODONTOSYLLIS ENOPLA (Bermuda Fire Worms). At this precise time the female worm comes to the surface of the water, emits a bioluminescent lime green color, a sexual attraction, the male worm sees this action, swims up from the bottom, mates with the female, the lights go out and in some 10 minutes all the lights, reflections, are gone . . . what a surprise.
Still another pass on the North side of the keys to allow us into Anchorage Resort Marina at Jewfish Creek, Key Largo.
When we arrived at the Marina the pool was full of kids so we stayed away. The next day . . . no kids around . . . so when Bonnie returned from her walk into Key Largo we took over and enjoyed the pool for the day.
Miami came into view the next day and we arrived at the Pelican Harbor City Marina, Miami Parks and Recreation, on 79th Street . . . Bonnie was then off to meet with her Virginia Beach tennis friends for the week end.
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