Stay on the path boss there's gorillas in the woods!

You captain Ron fans will remember that line. Well, there aren't any gorillas or guerrillas that I know of anyway but there are some big freakin' lizards in the trees. No Name harbor is located in the Bill Baggs state park. When we walk to the grocery store we take a path thru the woods. These big iguanas hang in the trees and scurry around on the ground. Just makes you shiver.

We took a walk over to the park beach. It is listed in the guidebook as one of the United States top 10 beaches. If this beach is one of the top 10 this country is in big trouble. There was litter everywhere. The sand was mixed with tons of plastic bits from plastic cups, plastic utensils and just a lot of junk. We couldn't walk on it in our bare feet because it hurt and we were afraid of cutting ourselves. Very sad.

Well, we finally left No Name harbor and sailed 31 miles north to the Port Everglades inlet. That is located at Fort Lauderdale. The winds were east to southeast from 13-21 knots. It started out very rough with seas in the 3-5 feet range and them came down to the 2-4 range. Very uncomfortable but not dangerous. The seas were mostly from the starboard side to the starboard aft quarter. At one point a rouge wave hit us on the starboard side and sent water crashing into the cockpit. It was a lucky thing that I had the enclosure panel down that was right next to the helm or I would have gotten soaked. The Port Everglades inlet was extremely rough with confused seas. Sandy was the helms person on the way in and she had a very difficult time keeping the boat on a straight course. Being a Saturday there was a lot of local boat traffic and the wakes from them make things worse. Once inside the ICW was calm and we had to wait for a bascule bridge to open for us to go north on the ICW and into Lake Sylvia. We are staying here today, Sunday, and will head out for Palm Beach and Lake Worth on Monday. We will most likely take the ICW because the weather is still crappy. The bad thing about doing the ICW from here to there is that there are 20 bascule bridges we have to have opened for us. They open on a schedule but you have to be there at the right time or wait up to 30 minutes. Once past Palm Beach the number of bridges is drastically reduced.