18. Little Card Sound Anchorage
Statute Mile:1126
Lat/Lon: near 25 17.242 North/080 21.405 West
Location: on the charted 7-foot waters east-southeast of flashing daybeacon #22, north of the Card Sound Bridge
Minimum Depth: 7-feet
Swing Room: unlimited
Foul Weather Shelter: fair, open to northern, northeaster and northwestern winds
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19. Manatee Bay Anchorage
Statute Mile:1131
Lat/Lon: near 25 15.412 North/080 24.567 West
Location: on the waters of Manatee Bay, just east of the Glades Canal approach channel
Minimum depth: 4-feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 38 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: good, but a bit open to southern and southwesterly winds
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This is a great bay with lots of room to shelter from any wind direction. The bay has a good controlling depth of 4 tp 5 ft. You can take the Glades canal all the way in to South Dade Marina, which caters to sailboats. Not much there but great shelter. Good Trout fishing also.
20. Cormorant Rookeries Anchorage
Statute Mile:1131
Lat/Lon: near 25 13.466 North/080 24.676 West
Location: lies some 250 to 300 yards east of the southernmost of the two keys, noted on chart 11451 as Cormorant Rookeries Anchorage, flanking the western side of Barnes Sound, a short hop south of the southeasterly genesis of the Glades Canal approach channel and just northeast of Manatee Creek’s unlighted daybeacon #2
Minimum Depth: 5-foot depths
Swing Room: unlimited
Foul Weather Shelter: poor, use only in fair weather or with light westerly winds in the offing
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21. Southwestern Barnes Sound Anchorage #1
Statute Mile:1132
Lat/Lon: 25 12.870 North/080 25.055 West
Location: west of Jewfish Creek’s northerly mouth, west of charted Division Point
Minimum depth: 5 ½ feet
Swing Room: unlimited
Foul Weather Shelter: fair, open to eastern, northeastern and, to a lesser extent, southeastern winds
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21A. Southwestern Barnes Sound Anchorage #2
Statute Mile:1132
Lat/Lon: 25 12.132 North/080 24.490 West
Location: west of Jewfish Creek’s northerly mouth
Minimum depth: 6 feet
Swing Room: unlimited
Foul Weather Shelter: fair, open to northern, northeastern and northwestern winds
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22. Thursday Cove Anchorage
Statute Mile:1132
Lat/Lon: near 25 12.134 North/080 22.505 West
Location: on the waters of Thursday Cove, just to the northeast of Jewfish Creek’s northerly entrance
Minimum depth: 5 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 55 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: good, but open to northern and northwestern winds
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I found here bad holding in mangrove mud mixed with leaves. Perhaps you can do better with a plow anchor.
Another pretty mangrove anchorage. Take your dingy and fish for snappers in Jewfish Creek along the mangrove roots. Be aware the powerboats will not be considerate with their wakes.
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