By the time most of you will be reading this, Christmas will be over – I hope everyone had a great holiday!

Yesterday we thought we would go to Anna Maria Island, just south of Tampa Bay today. But when we got up this morning we discovered that the Gulf waters were quite calm, so we headed out about 10 and traveled south on Gulf waters instead of going down the ICW. We quickly found we could go a lot farther than originally planned. I called the marina that we had planned to go to tomorrow and they had space for us today, so we headed to Venice FL and arrived there about 3.