Ft Lauderdale to Palm Beach with guests aboard

Daughter Robin getting familiar with our new boat "Great Escape"  To all our friends who follow the blog...WE ARE HOME AND ARE NOW DIRT DWELLERS AGAIN. These blogs are remembering our trip home from Ft. Lauderdale

 JoAnn and grand son Jon on flybridge

Doug and Donna Smith with JoAnn and me discussing the planned cruise up the "intercostal" prior to leaving next morning

Our new boat in prior owners back yard on New River in Ft, Lauderdale

Doug and Donna at german resturant

Robins view out  porthole in her stateroom

Doug and Dave have a cup before leaving our spot in paradise

JoAnn and Donna on upper deck while passing thru down town Ft.Lauderdale

 Robin and Jon

On the ICW (intercostal waterway)

Good friends and our neighbors on dock six at Port Charles marina in St Louis

Robin and her mom

Making way up the ICW.  I decided to run up the intercostal rather than on the outside in the open water since the boat was new to us and I didn't want any supprises out at sea.  Anyway the Icw is far more interesting if you don't mind the bridges.

leaving the 11th bridge we had to have opened for us.  Boat hieght is 18ft

Lower helm

light snack in saloon (salons are spelled saloon on boats)  Who knows why???

Jon playing with his phone, (that will later be submerged in the ocean in his swimsuit pocket)

Great Escape at the dock at Sailfish Marina...Palm Beach

Our dock at Sailfish

Dinner at Sailfish.  tomorrow a short walk to the beach   In the following week we went to Stuart Fla. took the Okeechobee waterway acrost the state to Fort Myers on the Gulf Coast

Boat Quote: "There are three types of people. Those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea...Happy Memorial Day!.

Entering South Seas Yacht Basin at Captiva Isl.  (2009)

Captiva

Crossing Tampa Bay

Gulf marshland

                                                                     Have a good MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!

The Last Fishing Day!! (for me at least. with the 4th grade class at Wren Hollow school)

Parkway Wren Hollow school's 4th grade anual fishing day at Busch Wildlife Conservation Area.  Grand daughter, Mandy putting worm on the hook

They used to clean the fish and fry them all in the same day but now its catch and release.  We had KFC for lunch instead.

Some of the fish recieved names and it was great hearing the excited screems when the fish were caught.

Bet it beats being in the class room!

Forth graders fishing. The lakes (ponds) are well stocked and every one of the children caught at least several fish.

 It was a wonderful day, as the previous fishing days were.

  CLASSIC !!!                                                           

Yes this was my last grandchild to attend 4th grade at Wren Hollow and my last time to experience this wonderful day of baiting hooks and unhooking fish.