Fort Myers-Naples-Marco Island

Sunday morning in Fort Myers we were heading to church, following our GPS to a Redeemer Lutheran Church and ended up at an art studio where people were doing Tai-Chi, so we moved on. A couple on a sailboat that we met at an anchorage stated when they were in a town they would look at the skyline and walk to the closest, highest steeple, so we took their advice. We ended up in a beautiful Presbyterian Church, stained glass windows, pipe organ, and a choir up front dressed in robes. The member were welcoming and even gave us some microwave popcorn with a note that said,
"Thanks for Popping In". The pastor last name was De Jong, so we felt like we were in Pella IA (our Dutch town).

A photo of Maggie Jo (and us) leaving Fort Myers Legacy Marina.
We haven't pulled up our fenders yet, tacky. When we tried to go up to our crusing speed (a fast 9 mph) we had a vibration.
We were wondering in we picked up something on the propeller or if it was covered with barnacles from Maggie Jo sitting in a marina for a month without moving.  When we got down the river from downtown Fort Myers closer to the clearer water of the gulf we pulled over into a bay to inspect the prop.  I jumped over with my snorkel gear and sure enough the prop had small barnacles on both sides of all four blade. After three breath holds and a plastic scraper I had it cleaned up. Oh yeah, I bumped my head on some barnacles and cut my left hand in three spots. The rumor that barnacles are sharp is correct.  And, no sharks came to clean up the blood.

Angie piloting as we leave Fort Myers Beach heading for Naples.

Within walking distance from our Marina was this shopping and restraurants.
We walked downtown and of course did not take many pictures. 
We explored the town- I walked 5.9 miles while shopping and back to the Marina.
 We did meet a couple at a street crossing and ( he was wearing an Iowa State shirt), long story short we ended up having lunch with them. 

From Naples we followed the Intercoastal Waterway to Marco Island, rather than going out in the gulf. The depth alarm was going off alot but we never hit bottom. Alarm is set a 5ft and we draw 3.5 ft.

Our route from Naples to Marco Island.
We are going to stay in Marco for a few days to wait out high winds and waves before we head to Marathon in the keys.