1/2/14
Cooleys Landing, Ft Lauderdale FL
Posted by Bill

Well…I finally got the blog up to date…even the map of where we have been.

Today we went on another dinghy ride down the New River. We wanted to check out Lake Sylvia for future anchoring knowledge. It is one of the most popular places to anchor here, and it was really pretty. Lots of really expensive homes line the banks and you have to dinghy through the canals to a restaurant to go ashore. It just so happens to be our favorite place to go in Ft Lauderdale, Southport Raw Bar, so we have no issues going there. We wanted to visit with Joe and Michele on Simple Life and they were anchored in Lake Sylvia, so we had a multipurpose reason to go there. Joe and Michele were not home, so we went over to the Raw Bar. We figured we would go ashore and check out the shopping options there and then have an early dinner before heading home. Guess who greeted us at the dock when we arrived…Joe and Michele! They were just starting to have a late lunch and they asked us to join them. We gladly did! Steamed shrimp, adult beverages, and great conversation made for a fine afternoon.

Afterwards, we hit the hardware store and the dollar store, and then headed home. We had the boat closed up in case we got a stray shower like yesterday and it was really stuffy. The temperatures have been 10 degrees higher than average this week. Normal highs are in the mid-seventies and lows in the mid-sixties, and it is supposed to go back to normal at the end of next week.

In our original plan, we were only going to stay a couple of days, but it has been fun to have some time to explore. There is a lot to see in Ft Lauderdale. Tomorrow there is an arts festival a few blocks away and we plan to check that out. Maybe a dinghy ride further up the New River as well. We haven’t checked out anything further upstream yet.