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| Goodbye Hollywood |
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| Some of the high rent district stuff~notice the helicopter! |
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| More high rent stuff~notice the ski boat in the side. |
At about 5:00 p.m., near low tide, we decide we were safely anchored so we ventured off in the dinghy to go a couple miles north to dock at Veterans Park and walk to our favorite~Mellow Mushroom!
We had a great time and awesome pizza. Unfortunately our buddy boats stayed put once they docked at the Delray Beach Municipal Marina and didn't join us.
By the time we returned to our dinghy, it was extra high spring tide. The dinghy got hung up under the dock as the water rose. We can only assume the floatation in our Livingston kept it from sinking. The gas can was layed over and floating. We needed that gas to get back. Ray started bailing with our hand pump, but said he would be there all night at that rate with that much water in the boat. He sent me on a search for something else to bail with. Well, Delray Beach has these nice solar powered trash compactor recepticles. There wasn't a cup, bucket or any kind of trash to be found. So I asked a man that was fishing, sitting on a five gallon bucket, if I could barrow his bucket. He was hesitant, but accepted my plea to bail out my sinking dinghy with it. That made the bailing process a whole lot faster and we compensated the man for the use of his bucket.
We put the gas in our dinghy engine with the hopes that it did not get water in it. It seemed to be fine as we made our way back south to "The Second Noelle". There was now a catamaran anchored in the harbor with us, kind of close, but what can you do. We had a comfortable night's rest after being so thankful that our dinghy did not sink.
This morning we pulled up anchor just before 9:00 a.m., which seems to be our unplanned routine. We did plan for a short day, which is a routine we like. Our first attempt at anchoring at the north end of Lake Worth where we usually anchor, was not comfortable in the strong SSE winds. We decided to try a new anchorage that looked well protected not too much farther in North Palm Beach. We made our way up the North Palm Beach Waterway to the second cove which was described as better holding than the first. That's what we wanted~good holding in these 20-25 MPH winds. We were there for 15 minutes when we noticed we drug anchor already.
Anchors aweigh for the third time today. We continued north past the Jupiter Inlet to Hell Gate, just north of Jupiter Sound and across from Jupiter Island. So far the anchor has held here, and we are protected from the SSE winds by a huge dry storage building. Our five hour day turned into over eight, but at least we should be able to sleep tonight.
We had a great time and awesome pizza. Unfortunately our buddy boats stayed put once they docked at the Delray Beach Municipal Marina and didn't join us.
By the time we returned to our dinghy, it was extra high spring tide. The dinghy got hung up under the dock as the water rose. We can only assume the floatation in our Livingston kept it from sinking. The gas can was layed over and floating. We needed that gas to get back. Ray started bailing with our hand pump, but said he would be there all night at that rate with that much water in the boat. He sent me on a search for something else to bail with. Well, Delray Beach has these nice solar powered trash compactor recepticles. There wasn't a cup, bucket or any kind of trash to be found. So I asked a man that was fishing, sitting on a five gallon bucket, if I could barrow his bucket. He was hesitant, but accepted my plea to bail out my sinking dinghy with it. That made the bailing process a whole lot faster and we compensated the man for the use of his bucket.
We put the gas in our dinghy engine with the hopes that it did not get water in it. It seemed to be fine as we made our way back south to "The Second Noelle". There was now a catamaran anchored in the harbor with us, kind of close, but what can you do. We had a comfortable night's rest after being so thankful that our dinghy did not sink.
This morning we pulled up anchor just before 9:00 a.m., which seems to be our unplanned routine. We did plan for a short day, which is a routine we like. Our first attempt at anchoring at the north end of Lake Worth where we usually anchor, was not comfortable in the strong SSE winds. We decided to try a new anchorage that looked well protected not too much farther in North Palm Beach. We made our way up the North Palm Beach Waterway to the second cove which was described as better holding than the first. That's what we wanted~good holding in these 20-25 MPH winds. We were there for 15 minutes when we noticed we drug anchor already.
Anchors aweigh for the third time today. We continued north past the Jupiter Inlet to Hell Gate, just north of Jupiter Sound and across from Jupiter Island. So far the anchor has held here, and we are protected from the SSE winds by a huge dry storage building. Our five hour day turned into over eight, but at least we should be able to sleep tonight.
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