March 21 Little Shark River to Indian Key

First day of spring, and happy birthday grandson Colin.

No see ums got us going quickly in the morning. Little shark River is a 33 mile straight shot to Indian key at the gulf side entrance to the pass which winds 6 miles in through the Ten Thousand Islands to the town of Everglades City. The day started with the wind from the east at 3 knots.  it later went completely calm and then came up from the southwest gradually increasing to 10 knots; the last two hours of the day we were able to sail , but it was too late when we arrived at Indian key to take the 6 mile passage into Everglades City for their famous gelato. Another time. Our anchorage at Indian key was not very well protected from the southwest wind and a strong tide was going out in the opposite direction until midnight. For that reason the boat did not lie easily on the anchor but we slept well anyway. There were no bugs at all during the night at Indian Key, neither misquitos nor noseeums. That is probably because the wind was blowing fairly strongly on shore.

Not much to report on this long straight day of mostly motoring, but I did see another tarpon jump in the afternoon.