Fort Lauderdale

On Tue. we said goodbye to Miami and headed up the ICW where with every turn we saw multi million dollar homes and yachts.  As we pulled into Fort Lauderdale we past Steven Spielberg's yacht. It is the blue one.  For scale the tender in the side garage is about 28'. Just past there we turned up the New River. This is more canal like with a 3 ft tide. It is very narrow with lots of twists and turns, and very heavy traffic. Lots of tour boats, water taxi's and huge yachts being either driven or towed. The biggest boat we have seen go past us was about 175 ft. The homes that line the river and side canals are most impressive.  We arrived right in the middle of downtown Fort Lauderdale and tied up to the sea wall. This is operated by the city and has water and power for $1.34 a foot, what a deal, we will probably stay 5 nights. One of the pictures shows a white yacht tied to the wall. It's 2004, 98' Lazzara for sale for 4.5 million.  The  turquoise yacht has a deck hand on the side to give you some scale.
For you past or present 3M'rs we had dinner with Jesse and Susan McCoy last night. It was great to see them!
Cheers for now