Moored in Fort Lauderdale with 5 other cruise ships including one of the world’s largest – the Oasis of the Seas (4500 passengers and 2000 crew) – she was parked right next to us and made us look small! Air temperature was 25 C and sea was 23 – wonderful to be warm again!
Spent the morning in the Everglades looking for alligators – had a noisy but exciting ride on an airboat zipping across one of the largest expanses of low- lying water in the world (really a very slow river about 2 foot deep). We saw a couple of alligators from the boat but even bigger ones when we returned to dry land! Fort Lauderdale is impressive with a fantastic beach area and lots of inland waterways - would be good for a winter holiday. We had a great sailaway party with a Caribbean band and were able to watch the other ships go out in line before us – hope they don’t all turn up at Grand Cayman or we might not get in!
Spent the morning in the Everglades looking for alligators – had a noisy but exciting ride on an airboat zipping across one of the largest expanses of low- lying water in the world (really a very slow river about 2 foot deep). We saw a couple of alligators from the boat but even bigger ones when we returned to dry land! Fort Lauderdale is impressive with a fantastic beach area and lots of inland waterways - would be good for a winter holiday. We had a great sailaway party with a Caribbean band and were able to watch the other ships go out in line before us – hope they don’t all turn up at Grand Cayman or we might not get in!
One of my cousins lives out there. She repairs boat hulls by swimming underneath them. You'd think with all this reptilian evil that she'd pursue a safer vocation.
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