There are a number of fishing charter boats that operate from the docks. When they bring back their catch they clean the fish at the pier. The pelicans seem to be onto this.
We spent four days on a mooring, and so to stay we needed to come into a slip for at least a day. Again, we ended up staying two, and then headed back to the moorings for a maximum of four days.
Over the last several days we had been actively tracking the weather. Marco Island about 10 miles south was the last of civilization until we crossed Florida Bay and hit the Keys. It is an overnighter or a couple long days, and we wanted a weather window at least a day longer than it should take. In addition, the Keys, continuing up to Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, then all the way up past Palm Beach are very expensive places to leave a boat, which we needed to do in a few weeks. While we could make it to the Keys no problem, as several of our neighbors were doing, it didn't look good to make it all the way north before we had to leave the boat.
After days of obsessive weather watching we finally, reluctantly decided to stay put. A month at a slip here was less than a third of what it could be below Palm Beach. In addition, bad weather looked like it was going to hit in about three days. After two days at the mooring we scooted back to a slip for a month.
After three days the wind started blowing, gusting above 40 knots, and it didn't stop for days. We may not have even made it to the Keys. Even if we had, we would have been stuck there, and not having much fun, since the wind was blowing even harder down there.
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