Cabbage Key and Cayo Costa
Cabin camping with our friends at Cabbage Key. The weather is cold, windy and rainy, but our cabin, the Cabbage Patch, is warm and too big to really be called cozy. Two bedrooms, two baths, wraparound porch, large living room/dining room/kitchen with picture windows. Lovely. The captain of the Island Girl gets fewer points for not dropping us off at our dock, but management was able to round up a golf cart to bring our stuff from the main dock, about a quarter mile away. Way too far to schlep our packs, chairs, and food by foot along the wet, sandy paths. Plus our cabin mate has a sprained ankle held stiffly in a huge boot. The small island is all mangrove grown over a huge shell mound made by the Calusa on an ancient sand dune, not a barrier island, as I erroneous assumed. This meant no beach. The first day was still too rainy for more than reading in the cabin, but the second was just cold, so we walked the short nature trail. The ospreys call continuously. One pair had just lost the...