Our Winter Home

The ten and one half hour trip to Key Largo was a slog into the wind. Windy Affair was able to go a bit faster and arrived just ahead of us. Here we are motoring down the canal leading to our berth at Marina Del Mar. As you enter the canal you must make securite calls as large craft coming out could fill up the space available. When one gets to Crash Corner where the casino boat is parked another call is made to alert traffic there. I assume the name is significant. Marina Del Mar has proven to be a great place for us to spend the winter. It is one of three hotels here at which we have privileges. We can get free continental breakfasts at two of the hotels, including right off the back of our boat here at the marina. There are three sets of pools and hot tubs/jacuzzis and restaurants, tiki bars and Coconuts, a restaurant/bar with live entertainment every night. These are all just by our boat or within a one minute walk. We have free towel service, laundery and shower facilities, and HBO cable. The staff is attentive to our needs as much as any guest occupying the rooms in the hotel.