We spent a wonderful Thanksgiving with previous next door neighbors in their home in Wellington, which is just west of West Palm Beach. It was really nice to be off of the boat for a couple of days enjoying a warm Florida Thanksgiving week-end. Of course we had the traditional "turkey with all the fixings" meal followed by fishing in the lake behind their house and then later decorating the Christmas tree in their living room! It was certainly the next best thing to being back home with our families.
On Friday we drove out to the beach and the girls went fishing on the pier, which turned out to be a lot of fun because the fish were really biting that day. They caught a dozen fish in less than two hours! Very exciting! With a cooler half full of fish we decided that a fish fry was definitely in order for dinner that night!
On Saturday they drove us around West Palm Beach and we all had lunch at a Tiki Bar on the waterfront before heading back to the marina to show them our boat and say our goodbyes. It was a really good holiday week-end but time to move on!
Fishing on the Lake Worth pier!
More beautiful water here!
West Palm Beach waterfront
From West Palm we went on to Boca Raton where we anchored in beautiful Boca Raton Lake for several nights. We also met back up with friends from our yacht club and marina back in Hampton who are on their sailboat for the winter and will eventually be going to the Bahamas. The four of us really enjoyed spending a few days together in Boca. We went to the beach which was really close by and on our last night we walked into town for dinner and then attended the Boca Raton Christmas parade, which was pretty awesome!
Scenes around Boca lake.
Boca Christmas parade
Next stop before the holidays was Ft. Lauderdale - "yachting capital of the world"!
