Boca Chica to Marathon

We remained in Boca Chica two days longer waiting for better weather which wasn't really much better.  We made the run from Boca Chica to Boot Key on April 4 with dark clouds, intermittent rain, wind on the bow and up to 2 foot waves.  Paul on Enough closely followed us and took a mooring near ours and settled in for a quiet night.

On April 5, Paul picked us up with his dinghy and we linked up with Frank and Carol on Hakuna Matata.  They have their car and drove us all to the Stuffed Pig for breakfast.  It is a favorite spot with the locals for breakfast and lunch.  The restaurant consists of a couple of very small detached building and a an open tiki hut.  The food was good and reasonably priced.  The place doesn't look like much from the highway and I doubt many tourists stop because it looks more like a bait shop than a restaurant.  I suppose that is why the locals like it (no tourists).  Carla and Carol spent the rest of the day in Islamorada while they guys did boating things like adding a wind generator to Minuet and measure volts and amps on Hakuna Matata which has a new solar panel.  Dinner was lettuce salad, roast chicken and potato salad from Publix washed down with wine and beer.

Stuffed Pig - Marathon