ICW Mile 1020: Lake Worth Inlet
West Palm Beach Anchorage
We had another leave-at-zero-dark-thirty start today from Fort Pierce to what is known as the Lake Worth inlet. After more than a thousand miles along the ICW we are at our southernmost point on the east coast. At least that is our plan.
We motored about 10 hours today along the calm and sunny Florida coast. Everything went smoothly, the engine ran perfectly with no leaks from our maintenance and repair jobs of the last month. As is usual, we saw many dolphin through the day and we had a nice bonus: The water has become the clear. We can actually see the seabed below as you can in most of the Caribbean.
The city here is West Palm Beach and it has a far larger and busier port than I expected for what appeared to be a small inlet on the charts. There is a big industrial port here as well as uber-expensive real estate.
Our next leg of the trip is to hop over to the Bahamas, only about 55 miles across the gulf stream east of here. However, we will have to wait for a weather window. The low pressure system crossing the U.S. this week is expected to bring very high wind to the area this weekend. We reserved a spot at a marina here to ride it out. After that storm we hope that weather will be calm enough to cross the gulf stream about a week from now.
That’s it for today!
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