Waiting for a Weather Window

Thursday, January 8th: Fort Lauderdale

Marilyn and Dennis came for a visit today. It was wonderful to see old friends we met way back when we had just moved from Vancouver to the big city of Toronto. We four went for lunch at one of the many restaurants near the beach that look out over white sand, turquoise water and and bright blue beach umbrellas.

Our experience of Fort Lauderdale has been a pleasant surprise. It has a beautiful beach along the water, attractive residential areas, and lots of close by shopping spots. Our friends, Bill and Mary on Southern Vectis have spent a fair amount of time in getting to know the city and have lots of suggestions for things to do.

We would love to stay and explore --- but ---- a weather window seems possible on the weekend and weather windows should not be missed. We may, possibly, all things going well, fingers crossed ---- be sailing to the Bahamas on Saturday night. We have begun last minute preparations although, as yet, I'm too wound up to join Bob in reading our Bahamas guidebooks.

The Woolseys arrived yesterday afternoon so the three boats all are set to move to nearby Lake Worth on Saturday morning where we will wait until our departure time Saturday evening. We'll travel all night so as to arrive in the Bahamas in daylight. The navigators from the three boats (Mary, John and Bob) have been busy checking various weather sources and we will proceed unless weather predictions change. I can scarcely believe it.