COYABA: BAHAMAS TOMORROW!!

This is what we see downtown Ft Lauderdale tonight

They don't call it Sunset Bay Marina for nothing,

We departed Stuart yesterday morning with a full load of provisions, diesel, gas for the outboards, and drinking water! We only went to Lake Worth for the night and this morning decided to see what the “outside” looked like down to Ft Lauderdale. Well, after 3 minutes out there we turned around came back into the ICW and ventured the whole way to Ft Lauderdale on the ICW. We wanted to avoid the 23 bridges we have to wait to open (on the hour/half hour or on the quarter and 45 after)!! We squeeze under just a few (we need 20ft) however we lucked in..... there was a sailboat being towed by TowBoat U.S in front of us and when he requests an opening he gets it, no waiting for the scheduled time. Of course we request the bridge masters if we could just follow through on this opening and they obliged. We probably saved 2 to 3 hours of travelling time. We are sitting in Ft. Lauderdale and the New River Municipal Marina. This marina is the one we stayed at last year, it is terrible navigating up this very narrow river but very inexpensive compared to all other marinas in the area. It is right downtown.

We will be leaving here before 7:30 am (the bridges don't open after that time for 2 hours as it is rush hour here on New River downtown area, good thing we research this!!). We are heading to Bimini Big Game Club, go through customs, then next day off to Chub Cay... which is the longest day of about 8-9 hours. I actually pull out the crockpot that day and have dinner cooking all day, don't you all love the crockpot??

We wish a son a Happy Birthday on the weekend (means really he is older but really means we are that much older!!) I hear it is Spring there in Ottawa, Canada and snow is melting, not fun for snowboarding for skiing. Where ever you arel, we wish you well and thank you for following.