17. Southern Card Sound Anchorage
Statute Mile:1124
Lat/Lon: 25 17.674 North/080 19.655 West
Location: off the southeastern banks of Card Sound, north of Jew Point
Minimum Depth: 6 to 9 feet
Swing Room: unlimited
Foul Weather Shelter: fair, open to northern, western, northwestern and northeastern winds
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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.
23. Angelfish Creek – Little Pumpkin Creek Anchorage
Lat/Lon: near 25 20.018 North/080 16.493 West
Location: near the northern mouth of Little Pumpkin Creek, not far from this stream’s intersection with Angelfish Creek – Angelfish Creek lies east of the ICW/inside route’s passage through Card Sound
Minimum depth: 5 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 32 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: excellent
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24. Angelfish Creek – Middle Creek Anchorage
Lat/Lon: 25 20.253 North/080 16.422 West
Location: on the waters of Middle Creek, immediately north of Angelfish Creek, west of unlighted daybeacon #10
Minimum depth: 5 ½ feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 34 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: excellent
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25. Lower Linderman Creek – Angelfish Creek Anchorage
Lat/Lon: 25 20.385 North/080 16.085 West
Location: on the mid-line of Linderman Creek, northwest of this stream’s intersection with both Angelfish Creek and Middle Creek – Angelfish Creek lies east of the ICW/inside route’s passage through Card Sound
Minimum Depth: 4 ½ feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 34 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: excellent
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26. Upper Linderman Creek – Angelfish Creek Anchorage
Lat/Lon: 25 20.556 North/080 16.266 West
Location: on the waters of Lingerman Creek, west of its shallow entry into Card Sound
Minimum depth: 4 ½ feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 34 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: very good
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27. Largo Sound Mooring Field
Lat/Lon: near 25 07.787 North/080 23.760 West
Location: on the waters of Largo Sound, Northeast of unlighted daybeacons #22 and #23, both east and west of the main channel
Minimum depth: 5 ½ foot depths
Special Comment: Call John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Marina at 305-451-6325 to secure a mooring. See /?p=153602 for a November 3, 2015 report on anchoring and fees.
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 45 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: very good
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We stayed 4 nights Feb. 2014. Depth at the docks is 19′, approach 6.5 ft in on the channel. Mooring we found 4’6″ at the outer mouth of the channel as you enter the lagoon during low tide. Don’t cut the marks, leave 100 yards or so before turning toward the mooing balls. If you enter and leave at high tide you will have 5’6″ ft. depth. We never saw anything below that in the mooring field.
The dockmaster is correct, 4’6″ is a maximum. We live on Largo Sound.
28. Blackwater Sound–Cross Key Anchorage
Statute Mile:1134.5
Lat/Lon: near 25 10.906 North/080 24.135 West
Location: on the charted 7-foot waters west-northwest of flashing daybeacon #38
Minimum depth: 5-feet
Swing Room: unlimited
Foul Weather Shelter: fair to poor, protected ONLY from northern and northeastern winds
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29. Blackwater Sound–Sexton Cove Anchorage
Statute Mile:1135
Lat/Lon: near 25 09.957 North/080 23.598 West
Location: Sexton Cove indents the shores of northeastern Blackwater Sound, immediately south of charted Lake Surprise
Minimum depth: 5 to 6-feet
Swing Room: unlimited
Foul Weather Shelter: good, but open to western southwestern and northwestern winds
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30. Blackwater Sound–Stellrecht Point Anchorage
Statute Mile:1136
Lat/Lon: near 25 09.335 North/080 23.862 West
Location: on the east side waters of Blackwater Sound, south of charted Stellrecht Point
Minimum depth: 6-feet
Swing Room: unlimited
Foul Weather Shelter: fair, open to western, southwestern and northwestern winds
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31. Blackwater Sound–Bush Point Anchorage
Statute Mile:1136.5
Lat/Lon: near 25 09.064 North/080 26.206 West
Location: resides on the charted tongue of 6 1/2%f-foot waters west-northwest of Bush Point, and west of unlighted daybeacon #40
Minimum depth: 6 ½ – foot depths in the anchorage, but during the approach, it’s easy to wander into 5-foot soundings
Swing Room: unlimited
Foul Weather Protection: fair to poor, sheltered ONLY from southern, southwestern and southeastern winds
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32. Tarpon Basin Northern Anchorage
Statute Mile:1139.5
Lat/Lon: 25 07.856 North/080 25.954 West
Location: on the waters of Tarpon Bay, north of unlighted daybeacon #48A and west of flashing daybeacon #48
Minimum depth: 6 to 7 feet
Swing Room: sufficient room for vessels as large as 45 feet
Foul Weather Shelter: Good
Waste Pump-out Availability: Monroe County provides a free pump-out boat at Tarpon Basin anchorage. It services the area from North Key Largo to Matecumbe Bight. Call (305)747-2388 or Ch-9. For more information go to
http://www.monroecounty-fl.gov/index.aspx?NID=442
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When entering Tarpon Basin from the north it is important to hug the channel along the red markers as the channel turrns sw and then west. There are no green markers and we wandered into very shallow water just se of the channel near red “46”as it turns. We wound up anchoring out on the north side of red 48A in 8 feet with good holding.
We used the northern anchorage last May for several days due to weather. Good protection and holding. Also used the docks at the government facility for our dinghy.
No problems.
33. Tarpon Basin Southern Anchorage
Statute Mile:1139.5
Lat/Lon: 25 07.438 North/080 25.937 West
Location: on the waters of Tarpon Bay, south of unlighted daybeacon #48A and west of flashing daybeacon #48
Minimum depth: 6 feet
Swing Room: unlimited
Foul Weather Shelter: fair to good
Waste Pump-out Availability: Monroe County provides a free pump-out boat at Tarpon Basin anchorage. It services the area from North Key Largo to Matecumbe Bight. Call (305)747-2388 or Ch-9. For more information go to
http://www.monroecounty-fl.gov/index.aspx?NID=442
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The northern anchorage is a solid grass mat with limited holding. We motored through this anchorage and couldn’t find a sand spit to drop the hook and decided to move on to another anchorage. There were other boats there but I wouldn’t trust it in a blow.
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Very pretty magrove anchorage away from the crowds. Anchor here based on the prevailing winds. Good holding in sand with abundant wildlife.