We leave our quiet anchorage in Thoroughfare around 7:00 and head off under overcast but dry skies. It is a quiet day for traffic and we don't see many other boats except big cruisers. 
We pass through a very swampy area with few houses and marinas. The anchorage that we are staying at tonight is down a narrow offshoot of the ICW and there are flat fields of tall grass for miles and miles on either side. It feels like we are stranded in the middle of the Prairies and seems quite bizzare for a sailboat to be in the middle of this vast field. 
There are small shrimp in the water; we can't see them but we can hear them. They are working very hard, pecking away at the hull of the boat, giving it a real good cleaning. It is too bad we don't have some way of catching some so that we could have a shrimp supper. The evening is clear, pitch black, and extremely peaceful. There is one other Catamaran that has join us in this 'Field of Dreams' but they have moved further in as they have a shallower draft.
We pass through a very swampy area with few houses and marinas. The anchorage that we are staying at tonight is down a narrow offshoot of the ICW and there are flat fields of tall grass for miles and miles on either side. It feels like we are stranded in the middle of the Prairies and seems quite bizzare for a sailboat to be in the middle of this vast field. 
There are small shrimp in the water; we can't see them but we can hear them. They are working very hard, pecking away at the hull of the boat, giving it a real good cleaning. It is too bad we don't have some way of catching some so that we could have a shrimp supper. The evening is clear, pitch black, and extremely peaceful. There is one other Catamaran that has join us in this 'Field of Dreams' but they have moved further in as they have a shallower draft.
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