Key Biscayne to Fort Lauderdale

(Friday Feb. 18 - Dist: 33.9 mi; Avg Speed:7.7 mph; TTT: 4:30 hrs)

This is the City of Miami skyline and waterfront.  We never did go into the city and our only regret is that we did not get to South Beach.  We will just have to save that for another trip.

While waiting for a bridge near the downtown, Linda and I, with the encouragement of our travelling partners on Finally, decided to have a closer look at the cruise ships which were docked along Government Cut.  Well the Coast Guard took exception to that and chased us out.  Evidently when cruise ships are docked, pleasure craft are forbidden
from entering the area.  Linda did manage to get a couple of photos on our way back to the ICW.

Here is a photo of our travelling companions on "Finally", Richard and Jill from Georgia.

Once past Miami we started seeing lots of condos and canals along both sides of the ICW but particularly on the ocean side.  As we neared Fort Lauderdale we started coming across more private homes or shall I say mansions.  All in all this was the neatest part thus far of all of our travels on the ICW.










I'll just post a few more photos and call it a day.

 

Our journey this day also took us through the port of Port Everglades.  It is a working port for both cargo and cruise ships.  Notice in the one photo where yachts are loaded on a bigger ship likely headed across the ocean.  (Aside:  Maybe our next adventure should be in Europe??)

 I am going to stop here as the update is getting rather large.  I'll create another entry for Fort Lauderdale itself.