Day 16 Slipping anchor

 We awoke to find ourselves rather close to the boat that was behind us. In fact we were close enough that the lady was standing on the bow suggesting that perhaps we should move. So being the kind and gentle people that we are we moved and found ourselves actually a much nicer site here in this Lake. It's very crowded and although it's a very nice place to be there's not a lot of maneuvering room. We realize that we're going to have to do a better job with our bridle and our anchoring. It was so crowded when we came in that I let my anchor pile up on the bottom rather than gently backing on it because I was afraid I was going to bump into someone. As it turned out that was not a very good idea so it was a lesson learned. Once we got re-anchored we took off in our dinghy to our usual dinghy dock at the Southport Raw Bar.

Florance shopped in the stores for chocolate and clothes. The locals here spoke Spanish, Russian, French, German and English.

I was also able to search for refrigerator parts and found a local repairman who has been helping me. He said he would try and locate the part here in Fort Lauderdale so I could get the refrigerator fixed. The frustrating thing of course is that it's a $36 part that's making the entire refrigerator not work. We then went off and had a very nice walk along 17th Street.  We walked the 17th Street bridge which was the last bridge we went under before coming in here. The view from up there as you can see from the pictures was really spectacular. It's kind of amazing to be above those mega yachts and as you can see from one of the pictures one of the sailboats mast was incredibly tall. He's obviously not a ICW friendly boat.