Miami to Ft Pierce (or... Big Boats and Big Mansions)

Daisy in Ft Lauderdale
Sitting on the Beach Wall

Miami from Blue Willow

We departed Mimai and it was great fun to pass by the city.

We passed the Cruise Ship area, but this area is now a restricted area.

The traffic on the water was unreal due to the recently completed 'Miami Boat Show'.  Many marinas were repositioning their show boats to marinas located north.  We got caught in the middle of the dozens of rather large boats trying to beat each other to bridges and inlets.

Close enough?
65' on each side this close!!

I did not even notice the
Bikini until right now

At one time I had a 65 footer on my port side about 20 feet from me, on the starboard side another 65 footer slightly astern, and then a boat directly in front of me and another back of me.  The wake from all these boats and other in front of this pack was tense.  On the positive side it was fun to see these boats running.  Things settled down some on the water and enabled us to view the areas a little better.


The Ft Lauderdale area has been referred to as the "American Riviera', 'Millionaire's Row' etc.  Names of current or former owners include: Burt Reynolds, Nick Nolte, Gloria Vanderbilt, car dealer Mike Maroone, hot dog impresario Oscar Mayer, Sen. Herb Kohl, the Wisconsin Democrat and heir to the Kohl's department store fortune, and members of the Anheuser-Busch family, makers of Budweiser and many menu others.

This stretch of water is truly unbelievable in its scope of immensity in size and value.

Nice.

Nice 2

Got to have the Yacht  close by.

Nice 3

Not a restaurant.

Typical big Boat on the ICW

Many modern ones like this one.

A personal favorite 

And finally.......
Got to have the Helicopter  for.....?

After Miami we stayed at Los Olas Marina in Ft Lauderdale, right adjacent to the beaches.  We walked the shoreline for awhile,  these are really great beaches.  Daisy really enjoyed the walk too.

With the winds still forecast to be blowing high, and the temperature to be down a bit,  we decided to move on to Loggerhead Marina in Lantana.  While there, the wind kept howling and was so strong we had to stay two nights, as we could not get out of our slip safely after the first night.

Next was Old Point Cove in North Palm. Awesome place, Free coffee, bottle of wine, great views etc. This is also where Tiger Woods keeps his 153' Yacht 'Privacy'  so no picture.  The PGA has a huge presence here. Many retired PGA players are located in this area, including Jack Nicholas.

Near Port St Lucie

New Friend.

Blue Willow in her slip
at Ft Pierce.
The Pelicans sit atop the lights
after filling up on fish.
I really like these guys,
They are fun to watch
Diving into the water.

We then made the trip to Ft Pierce.  This was a error, as I forgot to log an anchorage that we were planning on staying at, before Ft Pierce, thus we had a longer day than we originally planned (added three hours more), as anchoring was out of the question due to............. WIND!!!!  Downtown Ft Pierce is nice, but missing some things for boaters.  Their almost completed marina will be real nice, but there is a real need for transportation and reprovisioning stores.

Thanks for peeking in on our little blog.