on our first day of freedom, we did not leave dinner key marina until about noon. we first had our traditional sunday morning pancakes and bacon that we had been missing out on all this time. and, as we left the marina, i symbolically took down the SAIL rally pennant that we had been flying from our mast since november 1, 2014. we crossed biscayne bay to crandon state park in key biscayne to fuel up. when we got there, the price of diesel was 2.79 per gallon. when tom called the day before, the price was 2.99 so TADHANA took in almost 300 gallons. from there, we just motored over to the marine stadium anchorage for the night. it was surreal - the sky was blue, the water was a clear green, we were in no hurry, there was no route that had to be transfered to the nav computer, no one in front of us, no one following, no radio noise, tom's phone wasn't ringing or beeping - we were FREE. let me tell you, it felt good.
the marine stadium anchorage is a large, man-made, U-shaped basin. on the one side, there actually is a stadium that is no longer in use, a parking lot and what looked like a rowing/sailing center with shore access for consuelo. the other side is just wild with mangroves. through the open end of the "U," one sees tall buildings, the city of miami. at night, it glowed with city lights and actually, one building was lit up so that one whole side changed from red to green and then back to the red again. i have to say, it was nice being just us again, but it certainly was an odd anchorage and both tom and i noted that we'd never actually been in an anchorage with that kind of a view before. it was different.
we got to use our grill that evening and had celebratory steaks as we watched the sun go down.
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| headed north again to marine stadium |
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| our view from the anchorage |
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| sunset at marine stadium |
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| city lights |
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