We stayed in Ft. Lauderdale for about a week, as usual waiting for a weather window to move on. From there we traveled down the ICW to Biscayne Bay. We are sitting on a mooring ball in Coconut Grove (south of downtown Miami) with Small Craft Advisory currently in effect. Weather is my life – ready for a change.

Bill and I are leaving on a vacation, yes vacation from the boat. We leave for Australia (plane not boat!) at the end of the month. We will spend a little over 3 weeks in Australia then a week in New Zealand. My sister Sharron and her husband Ray live in Berkeley Vale which is on the central coast a couple of hours north of Sydney. We will be there for a few days then the four of us will travel up to Queensland in their car and do the touristy things up there for a couple of weeks. Back to Berkeley Vale for a couple of days then my sister will join us for the week in New Zealand. Should be a really fun trip.

When we return to the boat in May we will move back up the ICW. Looks like we will be going to The Marina At Ortega Landing in Jacksonville. Bill will then start the job hunt which will then determine where we go from there.

Bill and I both bought iPhones when we came back from the Bahamas. Apps are addictive! It has given us something to play with while we sit rocking and rolling on a mooring ball. We tray to get off the boat every day but without a dinghy motor we are way too far out from the dinghy dock to row and we are at the mercy of the shuttle launch as to their schedule when we can leave the boat. With the winds so high right now they have