Travel from Fort Pierce to North Palm Beach

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The trip to North Palm Beach was uneventful. Beautiful weather and flat water as we wound our way through the Indian River ICW south.

We waved at the Dolphin Restaurant we visited with Bunny and Evan. We noted the cut off for the entrance to the canal to Fort Myers. We noted a bunch of bridges including a few 20-24 foot bridges we slipped under nicely. We noted some inlets including some that looked pretty sanded in.

In Jupiter we kept our eyes peeled for Tiger Wood’s house. I think I took a picture of every house I saw but nothing matched the photos available on Google Maps. I think I found it though – a big white houses behind huge hedges with security cameras on tall poles. Nothing else came close.

We finally arrived at North Port Marina in late afternoon. This is a very expensive, very fancy marina. Big boats everywhere. It is shocking to us that our 44 foot is often the small boat in the marina. Not so in Lake Erie but here, wow, where does all this money come from?

At the end of our dock at the t-head was a spectacular 80 Hatteras enclosed bridge sport fish. Wow, it was 3 stories high worth multiple millions. It blocked out the sun. In fact, it was so big and just the color of Kermit’s t-shirt that he pretty much blended in to the background!

This place is also God’s waiting room with retirees everywhere. Average age probably 75. This place is surrounded by high rise condos. Each one has a swimming pool in the middle filled with wrinkly old people and the occasional grandchild. At the end of the peninsula are some 2 story condos that face the water directly. These must be the mega bucks.

I took a walk around the entire complex. It took almost an hour!

I saw a water skier in Lake Worth! We haven’t see a water skier in ages. We also saw mega yachts galore.

We found Tiger Wood’s yacht, Privacy. The yacht name makes it even more likely that the mansion with the big privacy hedge and security cameras is probably Tiger’s house.

We also watched a docking demonstration from a huge yacht docking next to the clubhouse using only his bow and stern thrusters to move a huge yacht into a t-dock.

We stayed at Port North Marina for two days until the weather was perfect for the crossing.