Back to Reality!!!!

Crossing the Gulf Stream was beautiful. It was calm and very busy with freighters! The current from the Gulf Stream actually got us up to 10.8 knots!!! We usually run 7 to 8.
It took us 8 hours to cross from Cat Cay to Ft. Lauderdale.  That's when reality hit!!!!!!
OMG so many boats..it was like Grand Central Station only with boats!!!!
  The "plan" was to come into the channel here to Pier 66, a nice marina that has been here for years, to get fuel and spend the night at a slip. Go to the pool and relax!  We kept calling the dock master but no answer...we tried hailing them on channel 16... nothing. All we got was a lady saying...If you would like to leave a message. ..etc
  When we finally got under this huge bridge we saw a sign saying Pier 66...yea!!!
Then another sign saying....closed for renovations!!  Boo!!!   They could of left some sort if message saying they were closed!   We had passed another sign saying Sail Marina and Fuel Dock. So we had to turn the Pearl around in the middle of a boat highway!!!! Finally got that done and pulled into the fuel dock....As we were getting fuel I asked if the had any slips available.  He said yes so we paid for the night...$99.00. Not bad!  I asked him where the pool and facilities were....Oh, we are just bare bones right now, he says!   No pool...actually nothing but a parking lot!! The Marina hasn't been built yet just the docks. We weren't about to go back out in that mess so here we sit... at our "slip" about 10 feet down from the fuel dock.....Reality sucks!!
  Only good thing about this place is Nancy brought Jessy down and met us here. She gets to ride the rest of the way home with us!!

Sooo many boats!!!

The fuel dock and marina

The facilities..picnic tables with a potted plant between them!!