Personal Narrative: My Trip To The Gulf Of Mexico

Our arrival on the Gulf Coast was marked by the striking change over from open land and farm country to high-rise condo buildings and crowds of boats. The pleasant, little anchorage we found was flanked by greenery and a big luxurious hotel and filled with other boats. After our daily appointment with the sunset, we quickly threw the dinghy in and headed out for another visit with more of the people in Florida we wanted to visit.
Our few days in Cape Coral were filled with visiting and chores; evenings of chatting and relaxing with family and days of laying in provisions and preparing for the leg of our journey that would take us across many many miles of wide open water in the Gulf of Mexico. This would be our last stop before a big stretch of wide open water with no services so we wanted to make sure we were prepared. …show more content…
The regular morning tasks of coffee/tea and reading in the sun completed we pulled up the anchor and headed for the Marina we had picked out to see to these chores at. The sun was so warm and welcoming that leaving our Anchorage, with a big Marina next to it, there was a line of boats heading out for their days fun on the water. Since it was Sunday, I didn’t have to go to work and I got to sit on the bridge and watch the world go by. Our hour of underway time passed to quickly and we had to go to work getting tanks filled and emptied as needed.
That done, our next up was to be our Anchorage for the night. However, leaving Fort Myers was like a superhighway of boats. Capt. speculated “you could almost walk across them.” Lots of other people had taken notice of the warm and welcoming sun and decided to go boating also. As we crept along through the channel with all the other boats, even idle speed was too fast. It felt just like the stop and go rush hour traffic. And was just as