Dessert 1st on BoatTest.com site

SeaSpray · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:20 pm Post subject: Dessert 1st on BoatTest.com site

There is a nice picture of Dessert 1st on this website.

http://www.boattest.com/resources/view_news.aspx?newsid=5131

Steve

Casey · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 7:36 am Post subject:

Cool! Thanks Stve.
Mary will be thrilled!
Best,
Casey

Larry Patrick · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 7:34 pm Post subject:

Nice photo, I looked up Boca Chita a while ago ,put it on our to see list,looks nice?

Casey · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 7:09 am Post subject:

Yea, very nice spot and very well protected. Can be very busy on weekends. No services, but free. Elliott Key (a couple miles south) should be a decent harbor once the NPS finishes the reconstruction project. (Reconstruction may already be completed - I don't know.)

I lived in a house trailer at Eliott Key for about a year during my assignment to Biscayne National Park in 1973/1974. Great place, but mosquito Heaven! Some entomologists at Univ of Souh Florida had us collecting mosquitoes for "research." Every other day we'd change-out the three gallon(?) glass jar beneath the trap with a new jar. ...we never ran out of mosquitoes! I vaguely recall the professor telling us they'd identified 52 different specie of mosquitoes. (Can't guarantee the 52 specie figure [that memory has somewhat dimmed over time], but it was a S***Pot full of mosquitoes!)

...if you go to either place, just remember the DEET !

Best,
C&M

Larry Patrick · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 1:40 pm Post subject:

Thanks for info Casey,wow that's a lot of mosquitos species. Are the Mosquitos also out at Bocha Chita? Read its best to go on week day too busy on weekend.Just Saw at end of your post both places so im guessing Bocha is bad with skeeters also.

Casey · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 8:32 pm Post subject:

Yea, both places are pretty healthy mosquito habitats. NPS has this thing about not using insecticide sprays ... So the mosquitoes populations can be ...aah... Very healthy!

Invest in DEET (100% if you can find it), and good screening/netting.

Best,
C&M

Larry Patrick · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 6:38 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the good advise will remember that when we go there.

Simplicity · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 12:11 pm Post subject:

Nice looking boat!