Happy New Year!

No, we haven't disappeared!  But we also haven't done a whole lot since the holidays......just move further south in order to find warmer weather.  Now that we made it to the Keys, we have now found some of the coolest weather we have had in a long time.  A sub-tropical low is forming over the Bahamas right now and we are just hanging out in front of Gilbert's, down in Blackwater Sound.  Its raining and blowing but all is just fine on Nati.

After Melbourne we moved south on the ICW, first to our favorite anchorage near Vero and then to W. Palm Beach.  We tested a new anchorage there, close to the Mega-yacht marina, Rybovitch Yacht Yard and they sure do have some biggies hanging out there.  We didn't plan on being in the middle of the activity but you can see..........yep, they were that close going into the marina!

M/v Pioneer 

Note the quantine flag as it just crossed the Atlantic

We call this boat "Ben's brothers boats!

Since Christmas we have done a little sailing, put 60 hours on our engines so now they are broken in and had some good times with little or no agenda.  New Years Eve was in Lake Boca, a beautiful night and some of the best fireworks we have ever seen.  It was close, loud and beautiful!

Then you have Miami Beach.........yuck, yuck, and more yuck!  How can one city have so many weird, arrogant, "its all about me" humans in one place?  Our old anchorage is now infested with day charter mega-yachts full of party animals.  They in turn play the worse, loudest and disgusting music (you can't call it music really) you can ever imagine.  I did find out however that there is a direct relationship with the size of a thong......the smaller it is, the worse a woman dances!  So we got out of there in two days.......

Hope everyone is staying warm up north.......we are trying to stay warm also.