Yay! We're in Fort Lauderdale! We made it, in spite of the miserable bascule bridges. When I was on watch this morning, whenever we approached a bridge that was closed, I turned the wheel over to Roy. I guess that was cheating, but I just couldn't deal with it. My depth perception is too poor and my mechanical ability is too limited to maneuver the boat in a narrow channel, backwards and sidewards and around in circles, while waiting for the bridge to open.
The boat traffic around here is horrendous. Huge power yachts whoomping up and down the channel. Speedboats zooming in every direction. Sailboats bouncing around in the wake. Everywhere you look -- boats, boats, boats.
We had hoped to tie up at Bahia Mar, as we did in 1993, but then in was off-season and now it's the heart of the high season. We couldn't even find out what their rates are now, but we're sure they're more than we want to pay, and they didn't have any openings anyway, so we went to a little cove near the bridge where the city rents moorings for $10 a night and tied to a mooring. It's very convenient. There's a dinghy dock close by and a bus goes right down the street here to downtown.
We hadn't had lunch, and there's a Stacey's here in Fort Lauderdale, so we decided to go there for lupper. We rode the bus to the downtown terminal and bought weekly passes. Then we rode another bus to Stacey's, which was right on the bus route. We were delighted to find it was just as good as the Stacey's in Norfolk, so we pigged out. Also bought our senior discount cards for 1995.
There was an Eckerd Drugstore nearby, so I bought a few things. Then we took buses to West Marine and bought a Bahamas chart book and a bunch of other stuff.
When we got back to the dinghy dock, we met another cruising couple, Larry and Linda Cohan. They're very nice. Larry had been an officer in the Navy and was stationed at Yerba Buena during the 70's. He came over to our boat later in the evening and visited for a while.
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