Lake Worth to Miami (SouthBeach)

Welcome to South Beach, Miami!! Aren't we supposed to be in bathing suites by now??? Actually the day we sailed down from Lake Worth we had a beautiful sail...a little chilly but nice wind a little aft of the beam...we cruised down. It was about a 70 mile trip from anchor to anchor..we left at 6:00 am and we had the anchor down and sundowners in hand by 5:30 pm!! We hit Government Cut with the tide against us but we still had the wind behind us..

This beautiful classic boat was coming in the same time as us...

We LOVE South Beach (SoBe) and have had a great time waiting for parts and weather. Of course we are also Dolphin fans and it has been fun catching "Dolphin Fever"!! We hope to have a weather window on this coming Sunday/Monday to cross over to the Bahamas which should mean we can be over there for the Holidays.

While in SoBe we have been able to complete a few projects...like sewing new Curtains!!

We also received our parts for the auto pilot and Dave was able to repair it...fingers crossed that this solves the problem. Of course it has not been all work we have had a couple of excursions into Miami...we went to Little Havana one day and then to Coconut Grove another. The public transportation is fabulous!! For $5.00 per person you can get anywhere you want to go!! We of course visited the local marine store which happens to be next to the South end of South beach and proved to be a "great" walk back to the dinghy dock!! Sunsets are beautiful with the brightly colored lights in the background...

Dave gets plenty of exercise rowing the Admiral to the beach for her morning walk ( she is getting very spoiled here) as she is welcome at all the establishments here in SoBe!!

Due to bad weather we have moved around the area quite a bit and one place we discovered was an anchorage in Sunset Lake which is surrounded by multi million dollar homes...most were welcoming...although you can stay in the lake for up to 7 days you can not land your dinghy so we were only there for about a day and a half and the worst of the weather cleared out we were able to move back to the "designated anchorage" . The local Marine Police are probably the friendliest I have ever come across and provisioning and laundry are very convenient!! We are hoping to get everyone in the anchorage together tomorrow afternoon on "Tilleys Beach" for an afternoon of grilling and getting to know one another...Seeing as we are all "stuck" here!!

Our friends on Reach showed up the other day so of course we welcomed them to SoBe!! Or should I say that they welcomed us as they caught two fish on the way down...Echo didn't catch anything but weeds so far!!

The Internet connection has been horrible from the boat so we had to come into shore and go to a cafe where we could get a connection. I hope that the next time I update this page will be from the Bahamas we'll See.....In case we can't get a connection before Christmas we would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years...(Happy Birthday to Amy and Kelsey!!)