December in Florida
We noodled up the coast of Florida for the month of December. Our northern most destination was Sarasota. First stop was Cayo Costa State Park. This park is a boat access only park. We loved the anchorage in Pelican Bay. It's a tricky entrance with shallow water where we definitely had to wiggle back into deeper water after touching bottom! Once in the anchorage we fell in love. Weather has been chilly requiring us to run the heat in our cabin overnight. Waking up to 40’s in the salon is brisk! Eddie worked on boat projects, readying the boat for fuel polishing by cutting holes in the floor to access the tops of the fuel tanks while I took advantage of the cold weather to cook. Cayo Costa, originally La Costa was, in the late 1800s, a quarantine station where ships from foreign ports needed to quarantine offshore for 15 days after which the doctor would board looking for symptoms of Malaria, TB, and Yellow Fever. Walking the park there is a Quarantine trail and, for those no...