Tarpon Basin to ... oops....

The maintenance glitch yesterday was minor.  Today we traveled about 18 statute miles...not counting the back-n-forth-n-forward-n-reverse required to try to get afloat after running aground.  In fact, as I write we are on the bottom waiting for the next high tide and hoping that it isn't effected by this north wind we were counting on to run us south.  As some boats went by they checked in to see if we were OK.  We said we were but asked about how much water they were in as they went by.  We realized we were not in the right spot (duh!) but also heard later from one of them that he was bouncing off the bottom a couple of miles south of here.
As there is no great way out to the deep water outside the keys (Hawk Channel) without going north we may do that in the morning when we wake up and float the boat.  Not sure what the plans will be next but the leg down to Key West may be out the window.  Had a great day jumping into the dinghy, hauling the anchor out 200 ft, dropping it, coming back and taking the extra fuel containers off and putting them in the dinghy to lighten Brunelle, pushing the boat, hauling the anchor out again, etc., etc.  Tomorrow will be a better day!!!~~~~(\_~~~ D & M
Google Earth track file (complete with two unplanned stops)

Morning started fine. Coffee, Mangroves, and wandering south.

Later Dan was out looking for water around the boat. Not a lot to be
had and the charts are just not that accurate.

Trying to reduce weight on the big boat...not sure it amounts to much.