Blogs from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, North America - page 5

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11th June To be honest Fort Lauderdale hasn't been what we expected. We heard it was a bit of a party place. This wasn't true. We did get warned by our friend (Siera) but it was always in the plan so we went anyway. It was pretty much lying on the beach for 5 days, eating at our burger spot and watch the football. It's not a bad life really. We are looking forward to a good 10 days in Miami drinking and causing chaos. The previous day we watched one of the matches and the bar had been pretty full with a good atmosphere. I turned up in my Derby County football shirt ready to rip into some frogs (the French) but we turned out to be the only ones watching the game. No atmosphere ... read more

7th May travel to Fort Lauderdale The original plan was to get up at 6.30, get some food, check out of the hotel and be at the greyhound bus station ready to go an hour before we were meant to leave. Getting to the station an hour before was a lesson we learnt the hard way back in Atlanta. The alarm went off as planned however we, in a half awake state made the decision to get the 12.45 bus instead. A few more hours sleep later we got up checked out with 1 hr and 45 mins till our bus was leaving. The decision was to go straight there or grab some food first. Long story short, we missed our bus again !!!! The food and taxi took forever to come and we may of ... read more

Deb sent an email out at 7 am on sunday pointing out that the ocean was like glass. What is that mean? Flat? or like a mirror? Really? hmmm …that is very unusual. (Don't ask me what I was doing on the computer at 7 am on a Sun!) Then she sent me the link to the webcam and that was it. All the original plans totally changed. We did 3 hr and a half searching for macro creatures. My first sight was a searobin. I have never seen one there. Good start. My favorite secretary bennies were everywhere. I love it when they make the crazy look. Deb showed me an orangy one and Steve a yellow one. I go crazy for those. I tried to get a shot of one of the 7 gorgonian ... read more

I must say, that the past month has been rather uneventful. No reroutes for hurricanes, and the weather is starting to cool down. Today it’s only 17C, the coldest temperature I’ve experienced since I left Vancouver behind in sub zero temps 6 months ago. I think it’s fantastic, and It’s oddly humorous to see people wearing sweaters, toques, and complaining that it’s too cold. That said, even though we haven’t had to reroute for any bad weather, but I have seen some rather interesting weather this past month. A few weeks ago it was blowing 40 knots all day while in port, the ship across from us was actually using propulsion to keep themselves from being blown off the pier. As soon as we left the port the winds picked up to over 50 knots and ... read more