Rybovich Marina
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
We had planned on traveling only 24 miles to Delray Beach today because of all the low bridges (7'- 12' above the water line) we had to have opened. We passed under (20) bridges today, eight of the twenty required opening. Florida actually has the timing calulated at trawler speed to make the next bridge opening with-out delay, if you go slow. Otherwise it is hurry up and wait for the next scheduled opening every 30 minutes. So if you time it accurately there is no delay from bridge to bridge. Consequently, after figuring out the routine, we were able to continue an additional 22 miles to Rivera Beach Marina.
It drizzled most of the day but the scenery on the ICW was still awesome with very expensive spectacular homes along Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Lantana, Boyton and West Palm Beach. This area of Florida has hundreds and hundreds of miles of beautiful homes and condo's along the endless canals and the ICW. On the ICW every home has a swimming pool and patio between thier home and the ICW, landscaped to perfection. What a awsome set up.
Tom took a couple of pictures of the well known Rybovich Marina which is a mega yacht service facility for boats up to 275’. If someone is interested, we saw lots of possible anchorages along the way.
It quit drizzling as soon as we arrived here at Riviera Beach Municipal Marina. We walked to the onsite restaurant, good 60's 70's live music, not to loud and quite a few people were dancing. The food was pretty good for bar food, Tom had sheppards pie that was excellent, and I had fish taco appetizer that was good. For anyone following us, you can probably find a nicer marina a few miles farther north.
We walked back to the boat, caught up with mail from home (thank you Amy), e-mails, blogspot and watched some TV. We were going to stay here two days, but the facilities are less than we expected and I think we will move on to Stuart and stay there a couple of days.
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