Oct, boating in paradise, SW Florida

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Just another beautiful day here in paradise!

The Skater is on the trailer, getting ready for the FMO 2010-2011 season, and today was so perfect, (air temp 85, humidity 33%, clear blue skies, clear light green seas, sea water temp 78, wings 5mph, seas 1 foot or less), I just had to go boating.

I lowered the 23 Stringray, 230LX, 350magMPI/Bravo-1 off the lift and had a great day. I went out the Myakka River, south down Charlotte Harbor, west to Boca Grande Pass, out into the Gulf, around the Johnson Shoals, south to a nice secluded spot on the west side of Cayo Costa island. Then I headed back to a quite spot on the SE side of the island.

Round trip was a total of 55 miles, I burned 17.1 gallons of 87 octane, that 3.2mpg.

Enjoy!

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It is a boating board, so here is the boat





Paradise found





Island residents





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[Pete B]

very nice, the weather has been incredible!

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very nice, the weather has been incredible!

Pete,

incredible here, yes!

[glenncal1]

I will be in the area (Sanibel and Cabbage Key) the first week of January, please have the same weather going then.

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I will be in the area (Sanibel and Cabbage Key) the first week of January, please have the same weather going then.

Got it!

If you are here for Jan 1, you should consider joining us (Ft Myers Offshore) for our annual first-of-the-year run.

www.ftmyersoffshore.org


Here is a pic from the April 2010 run