Lauderdale by the Sea

We spent most of last night awake trying to figure out why our boat was going around almost full circle, then was stern into the wind, and whether our anchor was going to hold if and when we straightened out.  We finally decided that there was a very weird current down one side of the lake in which we had anchored and it was opposing the wind most of the time.  Another cat anchored on the other side of the lake was swinging nicely into the wind as expected and stayed that way.  We did finally straighten out when the wind blew hard enough, and the anchor held, allowing us to return to bed for a few hours.

So late morning we headed down to Ft. Lauderdale (through four more bridges) for fuel and a pump out.  We pulled into a big marina with multiple megayachts parked there.  The boat at the fuel dock in front of us took on 4000 gallons @ $4.64/gal.  Do the math.  It's mind boggling.  We, on the other hand, filled both our tanks with just 26 gallons and thought the price of that was awful.  The pump out at the marina was broken and a private boat doing the service wanted $40.  Please!  We opted to look elsewhere.  They did let us tie up on a back T dock for free and walk down to town for lunch.  So that was maybe worth the high price of the fuel.

Back we came to Pompano Beach to another marina (back through the four bridges plus one more north) and got our pump out for $5.  Much more reasonable.

Now Kentris has a new temporary home at a private dock in Lauderdale by the Sea.
It's on a canal, less than a block from the ICW.  Very nice folks live here and will look after her while we are gone.

Betty

We think she will be happy here but maybe not quite as happy as at OML. But they have a little dog that Charlie would like named Betty.  Maybe they can meet some day.
We're flying home in two days so will be prepping the boat to leave her for a month tomorrow, doing laundry, etc.

ICW in background of this picture