Dismal Key Pass to Little Shark River

2/10/13

In the late morning we left our beautiful anchorage a mile inside Dismal Key Pass, and felt our way out the channel. The tide had dropped about four feet from when we had arrived, and I had not carefully scouted the deepest part of the channel coming in. I slid the tug up on a bar, and pulled the Whaler up along side, to scout out the deeper water. Another large vessel passed in front of us, and I asked if the water was deeper where he was than where we were. To put it politely, he was not helpful. We scouted with the Whaler, and found the deep channel, with more than five feet at the astronomically low tide immediately behind us.

This would be a GREAT anchorage in a blow, when all the local boats weren't everywhere celebrating a week-end of good weather.

I watched the other vessel as he kicked up mud, but made it through in the shallower water, as we backed off the bar and continued towards the Gulf. It is nice having a scout to send ahead in the Whaler!

We decided to run down to Little Shark River, away from the people, and hopefully enjoy a few days before the bugs got too bad. We entered the Little Shark River around 4:30 where four sailboats were anchored in the first mile of the river. Another sailboat came in after us, just at dark.

We enjoyed the great flyway that the Little Shark River provides, and called it an early night.