NautiNell's Adventure!: Greetings from Marathon and Happy 2013!!

It’s been a busy week here in Marathon. We ended up spending New Year’s Eve with most of the cruisers here at Sombrero. We had dinner at Dockside, the restaurant here at the Marina. It was a really nice get together although most of us didn’t make it to midnight. They ended up passing out the noise makers and champagne at 10:00! Mike and I did make it to midnight though and watched the ball drop in New York from our television on the boat.

New Year’s Day was beautiful and we had another big shindig on the dock – a great potluck dinner. I furnished the black-eyed peas. Had to have them for good luck! Up in Pennsylvania it’s pork and sauerkraut – so we had plenty of that too! One thing about it – boaters sure can cook! It’s a good thing too, because they sure can eat! J

This past week has been busy either working on the boat, cleaning etc. or hanging out. We spent last Sunday taking a dinghy ride along with “Jeremiah” and “SeaMoore”. We went to Burdines for lunch and then took a ride up the canals. Wow! There are some beautiful homes around here in the canals. I was happy to go to Burdines. I’d been craving their French fries. I got my fix!

We also had many happy hours – we all met at Cabana Breezes one evening after the guys played golf. Mike, Jeff and Carlton tried their skills at golf again one more time. This time all three were on the winning team. How did that happen??

Several of the boaters are back from the holidays now. The marina has definitely filling up. I think we are supposed to get a couple of more boats in today and there are only about 4 slips left open. The bad thing is that the restaurant “Dockside” has been closed temporarily. They started some remodeling and ran into major problems. The city shut them down until they get everything up to snuff. Who knows when that will be. The problem is that this also closed the showers and facilities. This isn’t a problem for us because we use ours on board. However, it’s a little disconcerting for some of the others around here – especially some of the sailboats and the dinghy rats (aka Locals). Hopefully it won’t be much longer. I miss the musical entertainment and the convenience of the food! Both were usually very good!

Mike has been fishing several mornings with Glenn from Coral Reefer. He has a 20 foot skiff – they can go out farther than he can in the dinghy. However, most of the time they’ve been hanging out by the Seven Mile Bridge. I’ve been pretty impressed! I must say that my freezer is about full! We’ve been really enjoying the bounty of fresh fish lately – mostly yellowtail. We tasted Kingfish for the first time. It was really good too!

We’ve been busy cleaning up NautiNell. We have company coming to visit from Missouri next week. My BFF – Pam and her hubby, Bill. It will be great to see them. I see another trip to Key West in the future! Yea! Looking forward to it!

Till next time!

Admiral “C”

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!