We visited Hugh Horton's new home in Cedar Key.  It is truly impressive with its commanding view if the Cedar Key Scrub Preserve.  Building projects can be done under the house or on the third floor in a hugely spacious shop overlooking the scrub prairie.

Here's a Trinka Dinghy designed by Bruce Kirby.  It is 12 feet long and weighs about 105 lbs.  Hugh hopes to have it finished "one of these days."

Next we visited the shell mound in the
Cedar Key Scrub Preserve. You can check it out here

Here we are enjoying the scenery.

Our truck in the background

On the shell mount trail.

A lovely lake on the trail.

Fiddler Crabs in a tidal flat.

Karen on the trail

We got to peek out at the tidal flat.

Next after a very exciting sail out to Seahorse and North Key's reaching nearly 12 knots in speed, we took the Portabote through Atsena Otie. The tidal channel is simply spectacular for natural scenes. Just before we went through we were asked to tow a couple of kayakers back to Faraway Inn across the channel.  The winds were on there nose and they were already near exhaustion.  The tow went well.  We felt good about helping them out.