Sailing to the Dry Tortugas! Can a brand new family of sailors live OFF GRID for a whole week?!

We sailed the 70 miles from Key West, to The Dry Tortugas. It took us TEN hours and was our longest sail to date. It was also the first time we lost sight of sight of land! It's a little intimidating, knowing there is no where to swim to! You are at the complete mercy of your boat, especially with us having so little experience. But just outside your comfort zone is growth right? Soon we will be seasoned sailors with tales of...well who knows?! But for now, we are embracing this time and we are all super excited! I know I mentioned this before, but this exactly where this whole crazy idea started! The Dry Tortugas. We came by sea plane two years ago, but it was only for four hours. Which sucked! And almost not worth the money (Because its pricey!) but looking back, it was the best money we ever spent. This place is so huge, there is no way to see it all in four hours, or even eight. You need DAYS to see everything here. And that is the exact thought I had two years ago. So I mentioned to Brent that we should charter a boat next summer and come back. Over a few months, that conversation evolved into buying a boat, then selling it all and living on a boat. I mean hey why not? You only live once and we are only getting older! So after two years of planning and strategizing and stressing and moving, we are finally here. This is one of the most rewarding feelings. This is the hugest goal we have ever had and we just killed it! Hell. Yea. There is so much history and so much nature. And then all of that meets beautiful, secluded beaches! Literally, Loggerhead Key is the most beautiful beach I've ever been to. Between Loggerhead and the Fort... like, "pinch me, is this real?" Looks and feels like a fairy tale! The Dry Tortugas are only accessible by boat or sea plane, which means it is one of the least visited national parks the country, The ferry comes in around 10:00 am and leaves around 3:00. Same with the sea planes, so after 3-4 o'clock in the afternoon, we had the entire place to ourselves (we including a few other cruisers.) How is this real??!! Anyway, this place is amazing. We have explored and explored. And I still feel like we didn't get to see everything. Brent wanted to dive the windjammer wreck, and we could never find the mooring ball for that. ALSO, our GoPro died at some point in all the moving. We pulled it out when we got here and it it just would not communicate, so we got zero videos of the snorkeling and underwater life. That is half the fun and allure! So we have to come back. We just have to! #sailing #sailingfamily #Sailingkids #catamaran