Our New Home

We're there!

Ahhhhhhh . . . You know when something feels right, it feels really right? Well we are fortunate enough to have found a home for our boating fun that feels REALLY right. This is our first full weekend in Everglades Marina and it still seems almost unreal. The differences from our last marina to this one is that of night and day. In fact, given that we have a huge grass area behind our slip and a beautiful view on the water side, I've come to refer this as our Cottage. And what a great feeling that is.

These fist two pics are taken from the back of our boat, in the slip. The top one is a morning shot, with the lower one being taken at sunset (no kidding, eh?). Previously, we had only been able to look directly at the back of the other boats in the 'old place'. Now, we have a much more enjoyable view.




Up to now, we had simply been parking our boat in a slip. Now, we have a place to go and enjoy are selves, without being confined to a small strip of dock behind the boat. The only down side to this is that we're at the end of the season, with the boats being hauled out in a few weeks. So, I'm going to be anxiously anticipating the spring when I can get back here to do some neatening up & personalizing around our dock.

One of the larger projects is going to be building a deck along side of this one. Later today we are going to be joined by our former next door neighbors (from our last marina) who will be beside us once again, here. To help out with the funds, we're going to be splitting as much of the costs as possible, including the deck. We have already supplied the gas BBQ, and they will be donating a table for the deck.

I've already started the construction with a widening of our finger dock. Since the view is so nice from the water side, we've decided to park 'stern out', to take advantage of sights. The dock was a little narrow to be walking back & forth on, so I added about 8" for an overall width of two feet. Much more comfortable now - especially with a beer in one hand:-)

The owners of the marina allow ius to do pretty much anything we want - so long as we don't p-off the neighbors (or burn the place down).

Like I said, it's RIGHT :-))