{"id":503,"date":"2022-02-04T17:25:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2022-02-04T23:40:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T23:40:56","slug":"first-stop-cooper-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"First Stop, Cooper Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We slept like rocks\u2026unusual for a night on the dock. Melanie was up first and grabbed coffee and croissants at the French Deli. Wow do I love the French Deli! You should buy stock in the French Deli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another wheelbarrow of provisions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A boat briefing, another provisioning run (fruit, beer, cheese, pate, wine\u2026) and we were off to Cooper Island, a quick 5 mile run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The run to Cooper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cooper off the port bow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Our first mooring ball pick up of any sailing trip is always an adventure – will we be speaking to each other once we\u2019re hooked up? Will we need an intervention? But the sailing gods smiled on us and we grabbed like old pros!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mooring ball celebration beer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Did I mention Melanie likes water toys? Two SUPs and a kayak are more or less filling up our deck. If we could tow a Hobie, she would be truly happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchineel Bay is a lovely sheltered harbor with balls for about 40 boats. The Cooper Island Beach club is great – rebuilt after Irma. We enjoyed dinner there our second night – conch fritters, roasted eggplant and chicken tiki masala. Absolutely delicious!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View from the beach club deck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another beautiful sunset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We enjoyed a second day at Cooper, a luxury we\u2019ve never had on shorter trips. A bit of snorkeling and got the boat more settled. But North Sound is calling and we\u2019re off early Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We slept like rocks\u2026unusual for a night on the dock. Melanie was up first and grabbed coffee and croissants at the French Deli. Wow do I love the French Deli! You should buy stock in the French Deli. A boat briefing, another provisioning run (fruit, beer, cheese, pate, wine\u2026) and we were off to Cooper … Continue reading “First Stop, Cooper Island”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKeQ3-87","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zipsterstravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}