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Originally Posted by RUSTYNTABATHA
just mapped the road part ... and it had me launching from the boca grande side ... is this correct ?? It shows 8 plus hours for us to get down there...
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Rusty, Eldridge Marina is on the north side of Charlotte Harbor in Placida. Conner launched there I think. A lot of locals use the place - good people. Just duck under the swing bridge to Gaspiralla Island and then bring the Opti's up to "Yodel". 5 or 6 miles to the pass then run across the harbor and down the ICW past Cabbage Key another 2 miles, hang a starboard toward Captiva Pass and roll starboard again past the stakes off of Pejuan Cove, ease north just off the docks until you smell the smoked mullet.
It's a hike for you and Kmoose down there but Conner and I were think'in some of our "Starboard Coast" Florida brethren might squirt across SR 78 below the lake and splash in at Pineland or Bokellia south of Peace River and join in the festivities. There are rooms at the Inn on Cabbage Key and cottages with docks there, homes on Upper Captiva, a County Camp ground on the north end of Cayo Costa or our place is open to whoever can put up with the various noises I emit at night. Thankfully, most of the sounds emitted, are drowned out by the sound of waves running down the beach at night.
I'm good with whatever the group decides for a location though; from Cape San Blas to the Marquesas - even that Drillin' Platform you got, out in the Gulf.