When reading up on places to go to with the boat on the Internet, Boot Key Harbor was not spoken of very highly. Too many regulations, intrusive coast guard types, not a fun place to be. We have experienced the exact opposite. Well organised, clean, convenient in a well protected harbor. We've taken a mooring ball for a week or two while Jess and Matt are out which we'll use as home base for various trips while they're here. There is a Cruisers' Net on the VHF radio which is like a radio programme that you listen to having announcements, suggestions for things to do in the area (restaurants, places to go), buy/sell/trades and boating trivia. Lots of Christmas trivia these days - much of it bad! We heard on the Cruisers' Net about a talk some of the more experienced cruisers were giving about going to the Bahamas so we dingied over to listen to that. Interesting, although there were a lot of diverse opinions - probably due to people having diverse experiences! The discussion ranged from checking in procedures to fishing to how high to hang one's American flag - lower than the Bahamian flag (and if you don't like it, stay in the US). Much of the information is what we've found on the Internet or in our research and some of the folks were trying to get the absolute, definitive answer for everything. Looks like quite a few folks with be traveling over in a group. Just like motorbiking, I think we'll avoid traveling in a pack of our countrymen because we'd like to meet some of the locals and experience some non-American / non-English things - not because we don't like those things, but what's the point of traveling to a different country if you don't experience it!
Have to give those folks credit though, traveling in a pack or not. Steve said it really well, "They're not sitting in front of the telly waiting to die, are they?!"
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