Titusville

Well we are in Titusville on a mooring ball at the municipal marina. We can sit in the cockpit and see the Kennedy spa center ! And early tomorrow morning the are having a space shot! Wow should be spectacular . Below are some shots from the trip from fr pierce. We spent the night on the way up at a anchorage called dragon point!






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Examples of the many bridges on the way to Titusville. The intercoastal travels the Indian river.





Above is the memorial park recognizing the mercury astronauts. In the background across the river is kennedy space center.





Another park in Titusville this one honoring the space shuttle program!


Above is a shot from the intracoastal looking east, this was a thunderstorm in the Bahamas about 70 miles away at this point!

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North palm to Fort Pierce

Left at first light from old port cove, had our first taste of Florida ICW today. Great trip, 6 bascule bridges, 3 fixed. Took us seven easy hours. Some pics below




We buddy boated with friends drew and stephanie on La Vita, here they are waiting with us for our first bridge opening at 7:15am
Just out of old port cove





- light house at port saint lucie inlet







Fixed bridge at Hutchinson island






Just another bascule bridge, Florida must have hundreds of these things


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More Miami Pictures

Anita in front of the tent from the China entrant "Sanyaz" at the Miami stopover for the Volovo around the world race!

This is the Abu Dhabi pavillion for their entry in the race! While we were in this pavillion we got the boat name done in Arabic!

They had the Volvo arond the world trophy on display! This was a before the storm pic, after the storm went thru the case was knocked over and broken, dont  know what condition the trophy itself was in.

Here is a shot of  Puma as they came in after finishing first for this leg of the race, just ahead of the storms! Very impressive machines!

Behind me is the Volvo pavillion, this is where we took refuge during the storm!

Close up of the Puma boat as they dock and get their welcome to Miami!

Above is the crew of Camper as they finished second to Puma. Camper came in durning the height of the severe thunderstorm. The campus was in a real mess!

Ft Lauderdale

4 great days in Ft Lauderdale, stayed at the city marina at Los Olas. Just 2 blocks from the beach and a trolley ride to the great shopping and dining area of Los Olas. Caught a movie at the I max theater at the Museum in the Las Olas distict, Dark Shadows!
Had a chance to catch up on laundry, wash the boat, run down to the flagship west marine and also went to Sailorman, has to be one of the largest marine resale shops in the world. Lauderdale is a sight to behold if you are a boater. Anything you can imagine for a boat is here.



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Above is the beach at Los olas just 2 blocks east of our Marina





Tourist boat that navigates the many canals that run all around Lauderdale




Just a few of the mega yachts that are around every corner in this town






Shot from the stern of our boat






Anita at the Ritz Caralton seaside, having her mothers day breakfast





Just your basic starter home in ft Lauderdale
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Arriving in Ft Lauderdale

Left dinner key at 7am for a offshore leg to Ft Lauderdale. Dead calm conditions at departure made for a comfortable motor. Water was so calm we were able to spot turtles on the seabed 20 ft below us. The skyline of Miami , North Miami, south beach and port of the Everglades passed to port as we made the trip in 5 hrs.





Above is south beach from our boat about a mile offshore








Government cut passes to port in the above photo








Canal in Lauderdale




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Starter home in Lauderdale just inside the port of Everglades cut.







Some nice little boats in the ICW in Lauderdale







Approaching the 17th street bridge in lauderdale on the icw


We got a slip for a few days at Los olas marina in Lauderdale. Nice public marina in Lauderdale.
Will be looking to head north Sunday or Monday

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North in the hawk channell

Pics from our trip from key west to Miami up the hawk channel

Below a shot from the Bahia Hondo bridge just short of marathon





- above is fun shot out in front of the keys fishery in marathon, great place to eat, happy hr crab claws are one buck each


Below is a sunset at channel five on our way from marathon to Rodriguez key






Above is a shot of our mooring field at dinner key in Miami, very cool, used to be the Pan Am terminal and air boat landing area






Nita in front of one of the endless high rise condos in Miami




Above is the american airlines arena where we went to the heat game wed right across from the Volvo compound







Nita with the skyline of biscayne bay drive behind










Volvo promo downtown Miami







Nita with bayside shopping area, very cool marina, shopping area near the american airlines area and the volvo compound!


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Key West to Marathon

We departed conch Harbour at 8 am Thursday after the kids left at 5am, calm wind made for a easy exit from a tight side tie. Weather was predicted perfect, sunny, wind from the NE at about 12knts. It was the best sail we have had on our trip so far, water so clear we could see the bottom from 22 feet well enough to make out crab traps and bottles! Water was flat even with 10 knots of wind because we were so close to land(maybe a mile offshore)and the wind was coming directly over it! We spent most of the trip sailing at 7 knots sometimes motor sailing at 9, over the ground was more like 8, cause of a head current. But a great time, we made it to marathon and entered boot key Harbour about 3pm. We called the city marina and arranged for a mooring ball and were snug by 4!

Had some cool times so far, went fishing in the dingy with Laura and Steve from paradise at 7mile bridge, took the dink down sister creek, had a bunch of great meals at the stuffed pig, a great little hole in the wall on hwy 1 just across from our dingy dock. Saw some native animals seen in below pics






-Never get tired of seeing these beautiful monsters (Manatees)





These pics were taken on paradise while SW was berthed at Marathon boat yard getting an new Jenny!





Above is a pic of the mooring field at boot key.

Looks like we will be here a bit because our transmission started leaking and we have it out getting a new seal and our generator began making a loud noise so I imagine we will be spending boat units to repair it also. Hopefully we can get back underway soon'

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