We left South Beach this morning at 8:30 for our 22 mile run to Dania Beach Marina. In hindsight we should have left 10 minutes earlier since we did miss the first bridge opening by a few minutes and had to wait 1/2 hour for the next one. Most of the trip was thru Miami which we had heard was a trip not to be made on a weekend since all the discourteous boaters are out then. Since it was a little on the chilly side, we went anyway and it wasn't too bad. We did encounter several boats and a little rough water in some of the narrow parts of the Bay but the view was fantastic. All the big
homes along the way was something. they just seemed to get bigger as we went along. Water cops were out to make sure your wake was not higher than 15 inches in the slow zones which was most of the way. We did see the Met Life plane that was shooting TV shots at the golf tournament in Miami. 
We cleared the bridge coming into the marina by 2 or 3 inches at high tide and after trying to get a 14 foot wide boat backed into a 13 foot hole, the dockmaster decided to move us to another bigger & deeper spot. Catching our lines in addition to Skip and the dockmaster was Ken Farthing who had been a speaker at the last 2 looper rendezvous that we have attended. We enjoyed the social hour after landing and then contacted our fellow boaters Stan 
& Colleen Anderson whom we traveled with all the way down the rivers from Huntsville to Mobile who are in the area in their motor home with their new air boat being shown in an air boat show. This boat is really unique in as much as it has a cabin on it. Stan actually worked in the factory that made the boat when they got here from Texas and the boat wasn't done. the air boat show had some pretty fancy boats and swamp buggies on display. The show was on the grounds of a rodeo so there was food and drinks available. We returned to the boat after dark and since we were driving Ken's Blaze
r, we were met by his dog Bob at the gate because he recognized the mufflers on the truck coming in to the marina.
& Colleen Anderson whom we traveled with all the way down the rivers from Huntsville to Mobile who are in the area in their motor home with their new air boat being shown in an air boat show. This boat is really unique in as much as it has a cabin on it. Stan actually worked in the factory that made the boat when they got here from Texas and the boat wasn't done. the air boat show had some pretty fancy boats and swamp buggies on display. The show was on the grounds of a rodeo so there was food and drinks available. We returned to the boat after dark and since we were driving Ken's Blaze
r, we were met by his dog Bob at the gate because he recognized the mufflers on the truck coming in to the marina.
What are your coords in Dania?
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