Day 51: Duck Key to Miami to Fort Lauderdale, FL

Up early again, we shoved off at around 7:30 am with quite a bit of water to travel. Back in Hawks Channel again, we cruised at around 14 knots, burning 11.9GPH all the way to Caesars Creek just south of Elliot Key. This little creek may seem shallow at her beginning, but she provides plenty of water once you are past the first few markers. Caesars Creek is a channel that travels from the Atlantic through Elliot Key and into Biscayne Bay. We decided to take this route to have a better view through Biscayne Bay. Once we ventured through the beautiful Creek, we came out into Biscayne Bay to meet a very nasty storm. We were however very lucky, because the storm stayed just off to our West. We headed North in Biscayne Bay, and took a channel just north of Elliot Key into Boca Chica Key, a small Key that is a state park only accessed via boat. With a small lighthouse at the entrance of the harbor she is a sight to see. We explored the island and let the storm pass over. We headed North in Biscayne Bay and passed through downtown Miami at around 4:30 pm on an out going tide. We decided to sneak out of government cut to finish our journey back to Fort Lauderdale. Once we were back in the Atlantic, we were ready to be home so we kicked it up to 2700 rpm traveling at 16 knots and burning around 14 GPH. We pulled into Port Everglades at 6 pm passing by 15th Fisheries and Pier 66 and heading into Fort Lauderdale's historic New River. Traveling West on the New River through beautiful downtown Ft. Lauderdale we reached our destination in about 35 minutes, Marina Bay, Denison Yacht Sale's Beneteau New Boat dock. We were tied up and ready for sleep at 7pm.

The Greatest Loop boat will remain in Fort Lauderdale until Denison's demo day. In the meantime, she will have a deep cleaning, and a few maintenance items completed.