2011 - 6/6 - 6/10 - Heading South on the ICW to Lauderdale (Again)

Jupiter Island beach @ Peck Lake

June 6th - Pump out & filled up with water at the marina. It’s still sunny, mid 80’s with steady, gentle breezes that makes for wonderful sleeping. 
Nice leisurely cruise down the ICW - no rush, no fuss - totally my style.  Other than a few huge wakes from A_ _ holes in Sea Rays, it’s pretty much smooth sailing and I am able to get quite a bit done like stowing all the stuff we got, working on our blog and defrosting the freezer. Much to my surprise and pleasure, Wayne decided to anchor in Peck Lake at Jupiter Island and actually stay put the next day. We’ve been here before and thoroughly enjoyed the peace and tranquility.

Jupiter Island beach @ Peck Lake

YIKES !!

Anchor up on the 8th. Turned on our 6 week-old notebook computer used strictly for navigation -deader than a
door nail! black screen- nothing-nada! MSI said to send it back & would take 2 weeks to repair/replace.  We don’t want to stay in the states another 2 weeks!  I called the local Office Depot & the manager will let us turn it in for a new one- YEA!  We had a nice unhurried cruise down the ICW. It was so calm I was able to defrost the freezer (lucky me).  Remember having to do that years ago?  I was also able to work on SPOT, a device David & Shannon gave us for Christmas so they & other friends can track us and know we're OK. Every time we cruise up and down the East coast I am totally amazed at the amount of HUGE homes along the ICW-hard to tell if homes or hotels!

Beautiful Boyton Beach Bridge on the ICW

Where the heck does all this money come from??? And I’m talking miles & miles & miles of luxury homes. Then I think of our little cottage on Summerland Key, which is probably the size of one of their bathrooms, and still happy to call it home. Overcast weather was a nice change from sun, sun, sun. We anchored in Boca Raton. Cottage pie for dinner and another rousing night of watching
America's Got Talent. We anchored in Lake Sylvia in Ft Lauderdale on the 9th and, once again, took a dock at Cooley's Landing on the New River on Friday, the 10th.
We have amazing friends who live in N.Miami, Stephanie & Bob. We met them in the Berry Islands, Bahamas in 2001 & have been friends since. For months we've been ordering 'stuff' & having it sent to their home.The plan was to take the boat near their house & load it all onto the boat - but, as you can see from reading these blogs, we can't make plans. So...after they both put in a full day of grueling work, they packed up the car & brought it all the way to Lauderdale.

Stephanie & Bob

They arrived about 10pm!! We pretty much threw the boxes on the boat & walked as fast as we could to the Downtowner for dinner.
Guess you know what's next.  All this stuff has to now be installed!! Suppose it'll be yet another week @ Cooley's.  Bummer!

Cooley's Landing Marina