Wreck Diving

Day #16: The winds are down and the living is easy.  We motored east on a glassy calm Hawk Channel.  The photo shows what all the cool wreck divers are wearing--well, maybe only the cool wreck divers aboard Nellie D. ;-)  The San Pedro sunk off of Indian Key in 1733.  Not much remains on the bottom but a few cannons and her ballast stones.

The floating grasses we keep running across remind me of Van Gogh's Starry Night--a stretch, maybe?

While dropping the hook in Islamorada a dinghy can zipping over. It was Tom and Martha Talton out of Naples.  The Taltons have been cruising the Keys and Bahamas since the 60's.  Like us they're here on their boat waiting for a weather window to cross over.  Also like us, they've decided to cruise the Keys instead.  While we're not in the Bahamas we all ate like it at Lorelei's last night; conch fritters and cracked conch sandwiches. 

Ok, now I've seen everything ;-)

At anchor off Islamorada. 31nm today and 277 for the trip.