Cabbage Key

5/10/09

Author: Doug

Pelican harbor, Cayo Costa

My buddy Kyle Reed drove in from West Palm (after flying from Denver) today and we pulled out of Fort Myers and started the delivery trip north to Carrabelle. Since we left about 1:00 we just made a short three hour run up to the North end of Cayo Costa where we anchored in Pelican Bay. This is a really great and very popular anchorage, due to it's good protection from all winds, large size and close proximity to the pretty sands of Cayo Costa state park.

Kyle and I went swimming from the boat, then launched the dinghy and ran it to Cabbage Key. I went around the key the back way, probably a mistake, as it was super shallow, even for the dinghy, and mostly an idle zone. But since I had managed to run us up on a flat to shallow to idle on, I took the chance and ran it on a plane, giving a ton of redfish the fright of their lives.

Cabbage Key is a very cool place, and since they sell Mount Gay rum, we took the opportunity to have a few.

Back at the big boat (took the deep route this time) we grilled steaks and watched the sunset. Not quite the Bahamas, but still pretty good.