Burning Bridges

We started our morning with the usual pot of coffee minus anything to eat, but only for a while.  We found a breakfast cafe called Sara's Kitchen within walking distance from the bridge where we leave our dingy Jazzy tied.  Sara's Kitchen specializes in all kinds of homemade pancakes, waffles and omelets.  It took us a while to decide what to order since everything sounded so good.  But we did decide, and I got a waffle with two eggs over easy and bacon and Meg got a healthy omelet.   It was a good thing we got there early because it soon filled up and was standing room only by the time we left.  A short ride back to Viridian and we were making our way south once again.

This passage took us through the West Palm Beach area where we burned through drawbridges every 15 minutes all the way through (actually this was very slow going). The houses along West Palm Beach and South Palm Beach were spectacular.  We looked for Rush Limbaugh's estate but not sure we spotted it for certain.  The boat traffic was heavy, and we rocked and rolled all the way down to our first anchorage location, only to find it was too shallow for Viridian.

Continuing south on Lake Worth Lagoon, we found a wide spot in the AICW on the eastern side in front of several huge houses where we dropped our anchor in 8 feet of water at low tide and shut down the engine.  Scoping out the area we noticed a boat ramp directly across the AICW and decided to go exploring for food!  Jazzy was boarded and rowed across the canal and secured to a tree by the ramp.  After a two-block walk, we found a dive called Surf Shack Subs, where you order through a window and eat under a tiki hut outside.  I got a Cuban Sub and Meg got a healthy smoothie Seeing a pattern here?  I confess after we got back to the boat, I made peanut butter cookies and had a few :-/  After finishing off the delicious meal, we stopped by Walgreens and picked up a few things, then went back across the canal to Viridian.  We are finding marinas with no vacancy and some further south with no pump-out capability due to the hurricane.  Time to hold up and rethink our cruise plan.

Not so many photos today as it was wall to wall mega-mansions/boats and bridges, but here are a few views from Viridian today.

That's the news and here's the views:

We are here

Today's Passage

Bird's Eye (red line)

 I got this idea from Rick Vicars, captain of Moni Jean (now captain of Best Mate).  The bronze snap latches make docking Jazzy much easier.  Once docked, we attach with the snap davit on the dinghy for hauling it up.

 One of the many bridges we burned through today

 One of the houses surrounding our anchorage

With the moon