Hobe Sound, FL
27.05.350N
80.08.259W

Finally! We're in Hobe Sound tucked snugly behind Bob & Caron's beautiful home rafted next to Toucan Dream, our sistership.

The part Dale had been waiting for in Ft. Pierce finally arrived and we made preparations to leave Friday morning. We left at 9am and slowly motored down the ICW to Hobe Sound arriving about 1:30pm (bumping ground only once when we tried to pull off the road at Pecks Lake - which goes from from 30' to 2' in as many feet.) Since Caron had told us that we needed a high tide to enter their canal, we kept going down past their canal to the next bridge, slowly returning against the current and entered their canal about 2:40pm to the welcoming committee from Done Reach (their unofficial name for their back yard.) It was great to see them again.

Their house has finally completed the construction phase and they are now busy furnishing it in a South Florida/Key West motif; aguas, blues and bright pastels. What they can't find, they make! Bob is currently finishing their dining room table made from 100 year old heart of pine timber recovered from an old turn of the century sharecropper house; it's beautiful already, so I can imagine what it will look like completed.

We enjoyed a hearty meal of catfish and shrimp reminiscing about days past and plans for future endeavors. We hope to sit down with them tomorrow with charts in hand and hone in on the specifics of where to go and what to see in the Exumas.