Welcome to the land of Money

Welcome to the land of MONEY
February 27 Monday
    Friday - We anchored here in lovely quiet Key Biscayne late Thursday night and woke to a peaceful empty anchorage.  We had some fog rolling in, but the sun was breaking through and the water was like aqua blue glass.  From here there is a beautiful view of the Miami skyline.  Did I mention how quiet it is here.   Well not for long.  By 1300hrs the big boats started rolling in.  I’m not talking big as in 45 foot sport fish, I’m talking big as in 60-80 foot mega yachts.  All of them fully loaded with young adults (if you want to call them that) on the decks dancing to very loud music.  By 1500 there was maybe 30 boats here all playing different music and loud.  But once the sun started setting, they all scurried away like rats.
    Saturday - We decided to check to see how our fuel and water tanks were doing and if we needed to start making water.  When we open the floor boards we found a lovely mixture of water and diesel fuel sloshing around on top of the water tanks (NOT GOOD)  When we filled up on fuel in Ft. Pierce we fill them to the top and the port tank is only used for the generator so it was still very full.  The day before we left Peck Lake it rained all day and we were filling our tanks with rain water, so the we also very full.  Let me back up a moment.   This fall we cleaned our water tanks and did not seal them with caulk, The captain thought the thick black seal gasket was enough and this was the same for the fuel tanks, (WRONG).  When we sailed offshore thursday, we were healed over about 20 degrees most of the day.  We now have fuel in our water tanks. Not a lot, just enough to make the water smell and taste like diesel.  So we spent all morning saturday cleaning under the floorboards and properly resealing the view ports on both water and fuel.  The generator ran most of the day and we did three loads of laundry and hung them out so the smell did not come through on the clothes.  This was to try and bring down the water and fuel levels to work on them.  We keep 10 gallons of drinking water on board separate from what is in the tanks so we are fine on drinking water. 
    It is now about 1300hrs and we have had lunch finished cleaning the floor boards, and are going on a dinghy adventure, while we wait for Hazel and Tom to arrive this afternoon.  The boats are just starting to come in.
    Hazel and Tom have arrived, it's now 1500hrs and this place is packed with mega yachts and little boats, it is so loud and the sea is choppy, due to the boat traffic.  Hazel is overwhelmed by all the craziness, I guess we are kind of use to it, after yesterday. 
    I guess this is a major party spot, we almost got in our dinghy with a bottle of rum and headed to one of the big party boats. We then came to our senses and did our own party on board Serena Rose or as Tom calls her the Mother Ship.
    Sunday was the same big party scene, we figure there is at least a billion dollars worth of boats out here.  But it's very entertaining during the day, but nice and quiet in the evening when they leave. 
    We plan on crossing to North Bimini, Weds or thursday, depending on the weather, then on to the Berry Islands to check in.

Sorry this is so long, but we have not had any internet or wifi service till now.  This will be my last blog post until we cross and find a place with wifi.  So don't worry if there is no post for a few weeks.  If you are worried, you can always watch our progress on our tracker. Just go to http://share.garmin.com/kevinwalters.