Our 2018 Adventure - Cruising to The Great Lakes

We’ve begun our next great adventure - cruising up to the Great Lakes! We began this trip on April 18 after spending several days loading Zendo from the dock of our good friends, Hilda and Tony who live on the next island from us. We finally took off at dawn’s early light and left our lovely home on Rivo Alto Island bound for our first night’s stay near Palm Beach.




 We passed under the Venetian Causeway bridge and headed to the “outside” route on the Atlantic. On this beautiful sunny day with calm seas we would make much better time than on the intracoastal waterway.

We reached our destination 9 hours later - a calm anchorage in the Lake Worth Inlet near Riviera Beach and just north of Palm Beach. We maintain a slow but steady pace of between 7 and 8 mph. To illustrate, it takes us about 8 hours to travel 60 miles which would take us only one hour in a car traveling at 60 mph. Obviously, this requires us to really stop and “smell the roses” which we truly enjoy,


Upon arriving at our anchorage we enjoyed the leftovers from Joe’s Stone Crab where we had treated ourselves on the eve of our departure with their famous fried chicken (Bill Clinton’s favorite Miami dish) with all the fixings and, of course, their delicious key lime pie. It's good to be back on the water!