A brochure image of our stay at Marina at Factory Bay, Nice facility
Wow, the last blog update was Wednesday and today is Friday. Time gets away when you’re having fun.
Marco Island is situated at the northernmost point of the Ten Thousand Islands and just south of Naples. There are white sand beaches, luxurious real estate, sumptuous restaurants, fine shopping, lively entertainment as well as boating and fishing. I think I could get used to this, especially the restaurants!
Anyone traveling this way might be interested to know that "The Marina at Factory Bay” offers 2 nights free with a paid stay of 5 nights. They also offer free laundry (2 GE washers & 2 dryers) and free pump-out and the facilities are clean and new. You are close to many restaurants within walking distance but a grocery store would be a long walk or a bicycle ride.
After much run around, we took a city tour on Thursday. The run around began trying to locate a trolley tour bus pick up point and the correct scheduled time. Once we had that we showed up but the trolley didn’t. We called the published city operated tour phone number and were told the tour was cancelled for today. We unlocked the bikes and while we were headed back to Noah Genda when we saw the tour bus. We rode back to the pickup location, locked the bikes and Tom flagged the trolley down. He was doing the tour and had no idea why we had been given that information. For us it was a waste of time since Dan and Jan Parker gave us a much better tour by car yesterday to the same places and it was free!. Well it was free for us, but Dan & Jan endured a cost.
Later in the evening we rode bicycles to the Espanlande Area where there are several restaurants and music outside overlooking the rather large boats in the harbor. We had a very good outdoor dinner at CJ’s overlooking the beautiful harbor
Today, Friday after lunch at “Al’s Deli” (great food) although it was supposed to rain we were brave and launched the dinghy anyway. We motored our way to Esplanade Marina by boat and viewed the incredible homes along the way. We also ventured into Marco River Marina by inflatable and cruised some residential canals. The sky started to look threatening late afternoon, so we cruised back to the mother ship, secured the dinghy on the hardtop.The rain came when we were ready to head to dinner. It was pretty short so after it quit we walked to Gino’s Old Marco Trattoria” for an awesome pizza. Leave it to Tom to know someone. I’ll let him tell you the connection
Tom here, this restaurant is owned and operated by Kevin Knott’s niece Mary and her huband Zach. Kevin and I have worked together for the last 20 plus years. Kevin’s dad Bill also stops in often to lend a hand. We stopped in earlier, introduced ourselves to Bill Knott and tonight we had dinner. Additionally we had the pleasure of meeting Mary. Gino’s is a very popular establishment with great food, nice atmosphere and good service.
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