After a relatively uneventful evening in Lake Sylvia, (we went hard aground for about a hour) we motored past 15 bridges to the anchorage in Lantana. We planned to leave the next day but an episode of AFib kept us there one more night.
So now it's Sunday morning on the holiday weekend. Yuck. Crazies everywhere throwing wakes. Fast boats passing us on both sides simultaneously, making it impossible to turn into the wakes. Some boaters can be real %$#holes, if you get my drift.
When we passed the inlet at Lake Worth, things got really crazy. Hundreds of small boats anchored around Peanut Island, even some in the channel, between the channel markers. Swimmers in the water, PWCs everywhere. One PWC kept drifting under our bow, hiding from my view from the helm. I throttled back to slow down and let him get farther away, but he throttled back and stayed under our bow. We were trying to transit a bridge so couldn't move to the side. We finally cleared the bridge without killing him when a cop came along and issued him a ticket.
We were very grateful to make it into Old Port Cove marina. We planned two nights here to avoid a more travel on the holiday. After a shopping expedition, laundry and happy hour at Belle's, we were tired and decided to extend one more day.
Tomorrow Jensen Beach.
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