So, my friend Vicki and I spent a day in Nokomis checking it out. The pic on top left is looking down Casey Key Drive to the north. Really busy there as you can see ;)Just down the street is a place with a potential boat slip.
Never very much depth around the west coast of Florida, so we fashioned a fishing rod to go fishing for depth.
From nut weights to bobber was about 6.5 feet (see pic on top right), since it was a 2 foot high tide at the time we "fished" and Athena has 4.5 of draft. In middle pic on right, Vicki is testing the water depth in one of the available slips. Based on the bobber being in general about 6 inches out of the water, looks like Athena will be in the mud at zero tide, and definitely sitting up on it at extreme low tides...
Not the perfect situation, but Nokomis is such a nice relaxed area and the people at the docks seem very nice. And, Athena has a flat bottomed keel of about 4 inches wide to help ride out through shallow times.
Bottom pic on left is from a bridge going over to the boat ramp park that is hidden behind the mangroves on the right and looking down the canal north towards the boat slips.
The inter-coastal waterway (ICW) is on the east side of the boat ramp park. Turning around and looking south, one would see the bridge over the ICW to Casey Key (bottom pic on right). This bridge opens up when tall boats need to get through.
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