Dramamine, Scopolamine, and the Straits of Florida

The weather window to cross from Miami to the Bahamas looked great today, so we set out on the 61-mile journey. Winds and waves were under our threshold of 10-15 mph and 1-2 feet, but we did not anticipate the great ocean swells across the Straits of Florida. With 2500 feet of Atlantic Ocean beneath her, Adagio bobbed and weaved across the Straits like a 37,000-pound cork, while I ran below for Dramamine and Scopolamine ear patches. As we wished for a bigger, faster, and smoother boat, Santiago's words from Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea rang in our ears: "Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is." Another metaphor for life.....

After docking at the Bimini Big Game Club Marina in Alice Town, we completed customs and immigration and were greeted by a shiver of Bull Sharks awaiting leftovers from the sport fishing boats nearby. No swimming allowed in this marina!