A Great Day with The McConnells; New Cell Phone Arrived

It was a beautiful day in Marathon. Temps rose to the low 70s, despite being overcast most of the day.

Joe McConnell and his son, Joe Jr., picked us up around noon and we went to No Name Pub for pizza and a few beers. It's a really cool place. There's over $100,000 in one dollar bills hanging on all the walls and the ceiling. The bar stools are really high!

They guys all sat in a row and Patti and I were sitting at the corner of the bar. We struck up a conversation with a nice young couple from Palm Beach, Brian Heiney and his girlfriend, Jen Clark. They grew up in Michigan and she moved here to be with him. We told them all about our trip and our boats and Brian said he wants to cruise like we are some day. We gave him our boat cards to follow our blogs and he gave us their phone number in case we're in their area we can reconnect.

We took their picture with their camera, but forgot to take one with our camera! Brian, you have my e-mail on the boat card. Send me the photo so I can post it here!

Joe and Joe Jr. have never been to Bahia Honda State Park, so we went there with them. I LOVE it there... this was our fourth visit there this trip! The views are spectacular.

This time, we saw lots of dead fish, just as we've seen all over The Keys, from the cold temperatures. The fish can't adapt to the quick changes in temps. It's very sad.

We also saw an iguana in the water. At first, we thought he was dead, but realized he was opening and closing his eyes slowly.

We walked along the beach and hiked back up the Old Bahia Honda Bridge for the spectacular views.

We stopped at Burdine's so Joe could have fried key lime pie one more time before he left. We had coffee and were still stuffed from the pizza at No Name Pub.

When we arrived back at City Marina, we checked the parcel area and Chuck's new cell phone was there. We got Jazzy off the boat, took her for a dinghy ride to shore and and I took her for a walk while Chuck walked down the street for gas for the generator.

Then we dinghied back to the boat and I programmed Chuck's phone. Then I made sirloin burgers on Kaiser rolls with Asian cole slaw with mandarin oranges and chips. We had waffle cookies dipped in chocolate with coffee for dessert.

Tomorrow, Patti and I are walking to KMart for a few things. There's not many places to shop in Marathon, especially within walking distance to the marina. That's about a mile or so.