Not long after arriving in Varadero which is just 50nm east of Havana I checked my emails and had a great surprise.....there was one from work. We left that night for an overnighter to Florida and landed in a town called Marathon. Had a great sail especially once we got in the Gulf Stream and had a good 2-3 kts current with us. Marathon is in the Florida Keys and is a very nice protected anchorage within the mangroves and apartments and there are also 200+ moorings owned by the local government. Checking in with he authorities was easy enough after phoning up and giving our details we then caught a taxi to the airport and was cleared in from by the customs guy within half an hour, welcome to the United Staes of America!!
After a few days we jumped on a mooring and it was time for me to say goodbye to Julie and get a minibus up to Miami to fly back to Aus where I have been for over a month now but will hopefully be back within the next couple of weeks and we will sail north. Not too sure of our plans yet, we were hoping to sail up to Chesapeake Bay but time is running out so we may just get up as far as North Carolina :)
Here's the mooring field for any cruisers interested
