Orlando, Stuart and Elbow Cay

You haven't heard from us this week. On Saturday we flew down from Charleston to Orlando. The forecast for the day had low clouds in central Florida. So we weren't sure if we would get to Orlando or not. Turns out the clouds didn't show up and we ended up with a nice tail wind. So we were doing over 140 knots for a lot of that trip. It was a nice quick trip.

We spent a few days staying with Dan's brother Mike and his wife Cara. We didn't do much, just kinda hung out. Their house is on a nice lake (Lake Marsha). It was nice to just relax by the lake. Mike has a ski boat. One afternoon, two of Dan's nephews went skiing. Nick and Steven took a few laps around the lake before they had to go to work.

We hoped to get to the Bahamas on Wednesday but there was a lot of clouds and heavy rain in South Florida. We didn't get to the Bahamas but did get to Stuart, FL. Pete has an old sailing buddy who lives there. So Bill & Millie picked us up at the Stuart airport and took us over to their condo. We had a nice dinner with them. We'll probably see them when we get back to the US. The Stuart airport doesn't have US Customs there but Fort Pierce does. It's only 20 miles from Stuart so we'll probably see them on our return.

So today also had a lot of clouds in South Florida but we were able to get out of there and over to Marsh Harbor. We went over, around and under clouds on the two hour flight. We went down the coast to Palm Beach and then East over Grand Bahama and then to Marsh Harbor.

We are staying at the Abaco Inn, in Hopetown, Elbow Cay. We got here late this afternoon. Dinner is in 15 minutes so I gotta wrap it up. Tomorrow we hope to get a boat rented to explore this place. We'll be here for a week or so.

We should have some pictures in a day or two. Stay tuned.