MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM DINNER KEY
25 December 2010 | Dinner Key
Cheryl - sunny
Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas.
We stayed 2 nights anchored on Lake Worth. First time using the new Mercury outboard motor, worked great. There is a place to lock up the dinghy just between Lake Worth and Little Lake Worth and walk about a mile to a West Marine and about a block away from a Publix grocery store, both very convenient.
From there we stayed last night at anchor at Lake Sylvia, in Fort Lauderdale. We are at The Coconut Grove Sailing Club on Dinner Key, just south of Miami on Biscayne Bay, on a mooring ball. We arrived here at around 1:00 so it was a short day for us.
We have been through a lot of bridges, something like 30+ bridges in the past week. As Bill was saying - when we were working our 15 minute breaks went super fast, when waiting 15 minutes for a bridge to open it feels like forever. Some bridges open on the hour and half hour, some quarter past the hour and three quarter hour, etc., etc. So, timing is everything. Some bridge openings we missed by minutes, then having to wait close to 30 minutes for the next opening. We are very glad all the bridges are behind us now.
It looks like we will be here for a couple of days, thunderstorms expected tomorrow and some high winds for a couple of days. Next stop: Rodriguez Key.