Not a lot to report from yesterday.  The wind was blowing strong out of the south again so we motored down the ditch from north of the Jupiter Inlet to Lake Boca Raton, where we had another beautiful night at anchor.  There were about 15 bridges we had to pass through on the way.  One or two of them were tall enough for us to pass under, but the other ones were opening bridges with bridge tenders that monitor VHF channel 09.  About half would open on demand and the other half opended on a set schedule (every 30 minutes), so we spent a couple hours of the day just standing by waiting for the next scheduled bridge opening.  The bridge tenders had a wide variety of personalities, some gruff and seemingly annoyed at times, but all were very professional, and Tom, at the George Bush bridge was very friendly and funny as well.

We saw more mansions on the water and megayachts than we can count in the Lake Worth / Palm Beach area.  There doesn’t seem to be any end to it in the south Florida area — just mile after mile of mansion on the water and megayachts.

We tossed the bikes in the dinghy and Lauren and I went ashore last night to make a grocery run.  The bikes are great.  We still have my Blackberry, so we know right were the grocery store is for now.  Things will be more interesting once we get to a foriegn country.

The wind is weak out of the north this morning and we’re talking over the various options for heading south today…