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North Palm Beach

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Monday, December 3, 2012

As much as we liked Stuart, we decided to go further south to Palm Beach Marina. The trip today was not far, but entailed many bridges most only required a call on the VHF radio to the bridge tender. Then ask for a bridge opening, but 3 or 4 of them opened only on a schedule. So we were rushing to make the next opening then slowing down to a crawl because the next bridge might be a mile away but it didn’t open for 30 minutes. This trip was the first time we actually saw Manatee. Ever since we got to Florida ICW we saw signs warning you to go slow look out for Manatees. It seemed like a scam we never saw any but Florida spent a fortune with all the signs, but today we saw many of them slowly lumbering along. Starting around Georgetown, SC we started seeing dolphins, usually they suddenly appear in the stern wake of the boat. As soon as I get the camera, they move to the other side of the boat. We still get a thrill when they swim along not 2 feet from the side of the boat for sometimes 20 minutes or so.

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