I think we can say we’ve entered the heart of the ICW…
The water is now shallow all the time and we are constantly on the lookout for shoaling (especially after two “soft groundings” in the middle of the marked channel – probably no worse feeling),
The pelicans are almost outnumbering the seagulls (well…almost),
The houses are starting to get more and more colourful, and
WE’VE BEEN SEEING DOLPHINS!
The only thing we’re missing is warm weather, but we keep telling ourselves it’s coming 
We’ve been slacking a bit on the photos – it doesn’t help that whenever we point the camera towards a dolphin, they get bashful (still no good pics yet but we hope they’re comin’!). Also, it’s been FREEZING…hard to operate a camera with winter gloves on
We had one exciting day in Mile Hammock Bay. We decided to sit at anchor and wait out thunderstorms (which ended up being upgraded to a tornado watch), and the weather was crazy! Pouring rain one second, sunny the next, 24 degrees fahrenheit with 100% humidity…it was wild. I took a quick video (sry for the low quality, but you get the idea):
Later that night, we watched a boat drag anchor, try to re-set, but get snagged on another poor soul who had been in the anchorage all day with us. It was painful to watch, buuuuutttt not so painful that I couldn’t snap a a quick iPad photo when noone was looking
