Lake Santa Barbara

Ok so I really don’t mean to not be truthful on the blog (lie is such a nasty word), but we are back in the ICW despite our best intention not to be! The winds have been quite strong out of the north for the last while (week maybe?) so the seas have built up quite a bit. Our thought this morning was that we would check it out and if ugly would deke back to the ICW for a run down to Fort Lauderdale. Well we did check it out for about 1/2 hr but it wasn’t sitting well with us so we went back in. However the first bridge only opens at 15 minutes after the hour (although our book said 15 and 45 after the hour), of course we missed it by 10 minutes which meant that we had to spin around in front of the bridge for the next 50 minutes. I felt like just dropping the anchor and waiting but nobody does that and I didn’t want to be the stupid Canadian who does something different :) Anyways we had like a zillion bridges to either call for an opening or wait for certain timings. Today was also a day of mega yachts and mega houses, the further south we go the bigger they become. By 5:00 we were only 5NM from Lauderdale and had enough for a day and found a nice anchorage in Lake Santa Barbara. It is surrounded by nice houses so there is no privacy, as we are peering into homes with our binoculars they might be doing the same to us……

The picture is of a well decorated house that we saw for Christmas.