Surfers Paradise Maxi-me

Well here we are in Fort Lauderdale , tied up at a dock (one of about 6 ) behind Bruno's house on a canal. It's called Bruno's Zoo. The canals here are enormous, hence the maxi-me in the blog title, and they are lined with Mega Yachts as they call them. We would generally call 'em ships. Albeit  small/private type ones. Ft Lauderdale is about 20 times at least, bigger than our little ' Surfers '. Not that that is necessarily a good thing but at least they have spaces between the beachfront towers .
We're on the corner of two canals.
                                                           Looking South

Looking East

OK so we would not normally spend much time here, in fact we've motored through 3 or 4 times in the last 7 years , but as we figured it would be a convenient place to fly from back to Oz for Chrissy , we decided to leave Jabiru here  in the comfort and security of someones house.
I see that the last blog ( apart from my whine at Vero Beach ) sort of finished at St Augustine (I did add a couple of things to that one....being as I'm calm and collected now......every thing's doing as it's told !! ) so here's how we got here. Really the only thing that happened besides anchoring for the night then ' up anchoring ' in the morning and sailing ( one marvelous day between Titusville and Melbourne ) or motoring was a lovely stop at Daytona to stay with Howard and Barbara for a couple of days.
Besides checking out the famous race track and a beautiful National Park area we checked out a couple of the original structures on the beach that were there when they actually started racing the cars in Daytona.......on the beach would you believe.

Uh oh...... have another lie down.

Howard's a bit of a speed freak (and he likes sailing!! ) so he took me for a spin in his Corvette.... me driving. Bearing in mind that I've been travelling at 5 to 6 mph for a while now in was pretty sensational......frightening maybe.......specially when he was urging me to greater speeds while hurtling round one of those long circling exits.I think he just liked seeing the sun glinting off my white knuckles.

After that it was a zip round on his 1750cc bike. First time I've ever hugged a man so tight.

                                             Gail hated it when it was her turn.

                                      Anyway we survived and took off for Titusville.
There we caught up with our good 'ol Pommy mates , Phil and Nikki of Ajaya . We ate , drank and 'ad a larf but of course took no photos of them , us or Titusville. Wait a minute..I did take one.

Local tobacco shop door.

 Next morning we cleaned half a ton of bird poo off the deck and had our lovely sail all the way to Melbourne ,picking Bill and Hale Kai up from Merrit Island on the way. That's one of the best places to watch rocket launches from Cape Canaveral , for those of you unfamiliar with the Florida ICW geography.  Bye for now.