Video of today's trip
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Long day of bridges, 16 to be exact. We prefer to go off shore here and sail down to Fort Lauderdale to avoid all the bridges, but the wind is not in our favor. The weather is overcast and it is a weekday so traffic will not be too bad. On a warm sunny weekend this waterway is a zoo, loaded with people who have no business owning a boat.
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| "Red sky in morning sailors take warning" |
We leave at 6:45 to catch the first bridge opening at 7:00. It is still a little dark. The morning starts out with a little rain and some distant lightning. But towards noontime the sun is out and we reach 81 degrees. We go through 16 opening bridges.
The opening times
are generally scheduled, so that a boat going 6-7 knots can make all the
bridges without much waiting. Doesn’t always work out that way for
unplanned problems. We have one bridge that skipped one of their
scheduled openings for some maintenance work that wastes about 45
minutes of our time. Our previous visits to Sunrise Bay had found few
boats. Now, that Fort Lauderdale has limited anchoring in some other
areas, Sunrise has become more popular. There are now two buoys
stating no overnight anchoring. These are not official buoys, most
likely put in by local land owners. The authorities do not enforce
them. There are about 10 -12 boats anchored here which is getting a
little tight. We do not get off the boat today.
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| Crowded Sunrise Bay |
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| Shore access Hugh Taylor Bitch State Park and the beach to the east George English Park to the west |
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