FLAMINGO POINT BOAT RIDE

The boat ride, on the bay side, from the Keys house to Flamingo Point is a very beautiful ride.

You have to know where you are going, as it is not marked with traditional channel markers except for a few points.

But it is a very smooth ride, due to how very shallow it is most of the way. You can see the drag marks just a little bit to either side of the channel, where drunker before you swayed from the path and got stuck.

 It never fails. A long boat ride will lull and child to sleep.

Such beautiful scenery.

The clouds, a thousand islands in the sky, to match the thousand islands below.

We found out that the boat lift has been closed since Hurricane Wilma, several years ago.

So we had a nice picnic lunch, bought some funny lookin' (but very useful) hats, and headed back the way we came.

(We had thought to make a whole day trip of it, going through the inter-coastal to Naples and then back around the coast, but that will have to be another day.)

Someone was more rested and alert on the return trip.