Now that we made it about as far south as we had wanted to stage for a crossing of the Gulf Stream, we started looking for weather windows appropriate to do so (winds out of any direction but north or east, and preferably light), and we saw a potential on Friday Feb. 18th. However one thing essential to do first is to schedule and obtain a negative Covid test within 72 hrs of arriving in the Bahamas. For us, this would mean Wed. Feb 15th and giving us almost a week to enjoy Miami Beach before we could leave the US with the right weather. We spent several hours trying to find a rapid antigen test location with much difficulty because the city had closed down all of these and was only doing rapid PCR tests - the test we feared might still return a positive result for Sarah. Defeated, we scheduled our rapid PCR tests for the 15th, hoping for the best and repositioned Juno to a new anchorage between Flagler Key, Belle Key and Miami Beach as we realized we were in a “no overnight anchorage” location. After moving we went ashore and walked around Miami Beach, doing a little shopping in a retail section of town.
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