We
walked to the Imax to get tickets for the 10:30PM Christmas eve
showing of Star Wars. Paid extra for early entrance to get a good
seat. Wanted to see the movie so I could stop avoiding spoiler alerts
in the press. Walked over to Cooleys Landing, Fort Lauderdale's other
municipal marina and talked with cruising boats “Mar-a-Lago” and
“Sarafina”. Mar-a-Lago, a Catalina 42, we have seen off and on
down the east coast and had seen them two years ago. They are a
Canadian couple Brian & Jane Wilson from Toronto who did this
trip two years ago and planned to do it only once like we did. They
are leaving their boat for a week to fly back for Xmas. They are also
planning to sail to Bimini from Miami and onto Great Harbor in the
Berry's as we are, so I am sure we will be seeing them soon.
Sarafina's owner Mark, has a couple who is crewing with him for a
month. The husband and wife crewing are from Keene, New Hampshire,
where Linda and I both lived before we got together. They mentioned a
bunch of familiar names of people I knew and worked with when I lived
there.
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| New River from one of the Draw Bridges |
In
the afternoon we had lunch at “Mangos” on Las Olas Boulevard and
did a tour of the oldest remaining house in Fort Lauderdale,
“Stranahan House”, which is now being hemmed in by tall
buildings. A new one to be 40 stories when completed will render
their sundial useless. John one of their tour guides and caretakers
is a wealth of information, tipped us off previously to “Mangos”
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