The south Florida winter season is almost over. Boats and boaters from up north are beginning their trek back up the ICW. We will be leaving ourselves in a couple weeks.
However today was a near last chance to take some friends out for a Sunday evening cocktail and dinner cruise. So we did!
Fully vaccinated since mid February we have been trying to figure out just what new freedoms the vaccination brought us in the face of steady to increasing COVID-19 and the threat of the "variants". Fortunately the CDC and logic suggest small groups of equally vaccinated folks can get together, especially if outdoors. Time for a boat ride!
So five of us grabbed some adult beverages and enough appetizers to serve as dinner and off we went. It was a slow trip south on the ICW a few miles, followed by a u-turn and a stop on the way back at a little protected county recreation dock.
The tide was headed out and the water was thin and getting thinner as we entered the rec area. The floating dock beckoned and we tied up to get serious about the appetizers. You could almost see the falling tide. As a response we moved through "dinner" fairly quickly and got back out on the ICW with just inches under the keel.
We were responsibly back in the slip as the sun set. Mom would have been so proud!