Arrluk's Whale of a Tale

Thursday 2/28/13
This morning we left Lake Worth early. The decision was easy as we were all awake after a night of 20 knot winds and a minus low tide.

Good bye Lake Worth

You see Wednesday we stayed in the lake and we were anchored in shallow water (enough we actually grounded) from the night before when we arrived after dark. We decided to pull anchor and move to deeper water for the night. Which we did about 7pm. Once newly anchored we felt better but mother nature decided to blow thru the night (20+ knots) and the anchor did not hold (we drug it 60 feet) and at low tide (3am) we hit bottom. Bob spent the rest of the night up watching to be sure we did not drift further into the shallows as the tide came in and the wind continued to blow. At 6 when we were all up (after a fitful 3 hrs listening and coming to at every noise) the boat was floating and the wind was still blowing and we said enough! We made ready, pulled anchor, and slowly ever so slowly pulled away from the shallows and headed south.

Now for the days travels. First we came across some light industrial & shipping. Lake Worth has a good inlet to the ocean.

Cargo container ship

New mega yachts being built

house moving FL style

Congestion on the ICW was rampant. Lots of little towns. Lots of bridges. Lots of other boaters waiting with us for bridge openings. One after another, after another, after another. We got to know the other boats in line with us by name. We (and they) hailing bridges for each other as we tried to make and not miss the next opening of the next bridge.
But the houses, nay the mansions, we saw today were astounding, beautiful, opulant, just down right HUGE.