Friday, January 18, 2013

New River in Ft. Lauderdale (Or a Piece of PARADISE !)

On "New River", this is our Great Escape at the time of purchase. It's at the previous owners dock behind his house  in Ft. Lauderdale Fla.  She was called IIK's and we changed the name to Great Escape on way home to St. Louis Mo.

"New River" is beautiful and this was our view, from the cockpit, during morning coffee during our short stay there.

Across the channel there was a huge Sea Ray

As we left the dock the scenic vistas unrolled before us, one after another.  This was my first time to run our new boat on my own.

Heading down New River toward downtown Ft. Lauderdale, passing huge MEGA YACHTS was a little nerve-racking at first! Some were over 120 ft. long. Some needed two push boats to help make the turn by our dock on New River

Our first bridge was easy as we just followed the "JUNGLE QUEEN".

 Slowly the surroundings changed from tropical residential to tropical Metro as we neared down town.

The Jungle Queen sailed past us twice a day when we were moored at the dock.  The captain would be telling the tourists about the area on a loud speaker on the boat.  I told JoAnn that those people think we're "rich people" He He He... Little did they know we were only staying for free at that dock in paradise.

JoAnn and daughter Robin on top deck getting excited over our nearing the tourist areas of Ft. L. and the beaches.

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