{"id":4039,"date":"2015-01-29T14:17:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2015-01-29T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:17:21","slug":"a-few-days-in-the-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4039","title":{"rendered":"A few days in the \u201cBeaches\u201d."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Thursday morning and we are anchored in North Lake Worth, a long open part of the ICW that spans the \u201cBeaches\u201d.\u00a0 That would be West Palm Beach, Palm Beach etc.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The anchorage, unlike so many others in FL is quite open with room for many boats.\u00a0 Lake Worth inlet is about 3.5mi south of here and it\u2019s a very popular jumping off spot for folks heading over to the Abacos, the northern Bahamas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday we headed out of the Ft Pierce inlet and ran down the 50 miles from there to the Lake Worth inlet on the ocean side.\u00a0 We had a bit more wind than we wanted, topping out at over 20kts, and the seas were pretty big, although on our stern.\u00a0\u00a0 Pandora handled it very well but Brenda was less than enthusiastic about the rough ride, as you can imagine.\u00a0\u00a0 And, it was also pretty cool, in the low 60s. Before you Northerners get all uppity with comments like, \u00a0\u201cBob, you don\u2019t know cold!\u00a0 How about 30\u201d of snow and 20 degrees?\u201d, don\u2019t forget that it\u2019s supposed to be WARM here and to sit out in the wind all day in the low 60s can get a bit chilly.<\/p>\n

OK, OK, so I am getting soft.\u00a0\u00a0 However, don\u2019t go feeling too sorry for us as today it\u2019s supposed to be in the low 70s and warmer than that in the next few days.<\/p>\n

Our plan is to hang out here for a few days and then to head further down, likely on the ICW, not outside, to Boca Raton and then on to Ft Lauderdale.\u00a0 This part of the ICW is very pretty, if jammed with bridges, sometimes every mile that only open on their schedule.\u00a0 And, don\u2019t be even a minute late or you have to wait another half hour or hour for the next opening. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If you can keep up a steady 7kts between bridges, the openings are supposed to be timed so you can make all of them with a minimum of delays.\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s the theory anyway.<\/p>\n

The homes along this part of the ICW, known as \u201cThe Gold Coast\u201d are huge with each one bigger than the last.\u00a0 I always wonder if some, or most, are paid for with \u201cIll gotten gains\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0As most of these are probably second homes, I can only imagine with their \u201creal house\u201d looks like.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>The simple way to avoid the delays of all the bridges is to head back out of the Lake Worth inlet and make a short 30 mile run down to Lauderdale in the ocean.\u00a0 However, we really enjoy Boca Raton, which is about half way from Lake Worth to Ft Lauderdale, \u00a0as there is a particularly good anchorage and would like to spend a few days there.\u00a0 Alas, life is full of compromises when you are Snow Birds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, today I am planning to do a bit of exploring ashore and Brenda\u2019s going to catch up on her weaving.\u00a0 She\u2019s working on a small, if challenging, piece that has an early March deadline and she hasn\u2019t made much progress so far.\u00a0 Weaving involves a lot of trial and error to get the image right.\u00a0 As a result, she weaves and then un-weaves often which makes for sloooow progress.<\/p>\n

Friday we will be meeting up with old friends Linda and Richard who live in West Palm Beach.\u00a0\u00a0 In a previous life I worked with Linda and it\u2019s always nice to see them when we are on our way through the area.<\/p>\n

Yesterday\u2019s run was quite a romp and a few times our speed, as we surfed down the face of a wave, topped out at a bit over 9kts.\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty fast.\u00a0\u00a0 Brenda spent much of the day down below as it was pretty cold up on deck.\u00a0 I saw a couple of dolphins near the bow and at one point I saw an enormous sea turtle.\u00a0 Unfortunately, my camera was down below and as we were going so fast, he was gone in the blink of an eye.\u00a0\u00a0 I would estimate that he was about 4.5\u2019 long and his head was as large as a cantaloupe.\u00a0 A pretty amazing sight.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be a beautiful if somewhat overcast day here with temperatures to be in the low 70s.\u00a0 What a dramatic sunrise we enjoyed a short time ago.\"\"<\/a>A great way to get the day started for a couple of aging snowbirds hanging out at the \u201cBeaches\u201d here in sort of sunny Florida.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Thursday morning and we are anchored in North Lake Worth, a long open part of the ICW that spans the \u201cBeaches\u201d.\u00a0 That would be West Palm Beach, Palm Beach etc.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The anchorage, unlike so many others in FL is quite open with room for many boats.\u00a0 Lake Worth inlet is about 3.5mi south of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}