Saturday, March 29, 2014

Guess how far the sound of music travels?

We can vouch that it's almost 3 miles for sure, across open water, especially it is music you don't care for!  We are apparently fortunate to be here for Ultra Festival, a wildly popular event that drew over 55,000 attendees last year.  The genre is EDM, house, dance, electro house, D&B, hardstyle, and dubstep.  oh, yeah, I know what all of those are....  I do know that the venue is almost 3 miles across into downtown Miami, and we can sure hear it.  Hard to catch the photo, but we can watch the light show, too.  It's even more effective after dark, but harder to catch.  Oh, BTY - General Admission?  $400.... the local TV station showed throngs of young folks jumping the fencing and gates.  Soooo glad I'm old.


As you have probably guessed, we are still in Miami.  Up at 6 a.m. to recheck the weather and finally decided that the forecast was not worth the risk.  Strong thunderstorms in the area where we intended to go in, about the time we would be there.  This stretch of FL is not geographically cruiser friendly.  There are no frequent ports that we can use as alternates in the case of bad weather.  Seems that we made the right decision -the forecast bore out and it looked pretty ugly around Lake Worth at our estimated arrival window.  Tomorrow and Monday will be clear but the wind is from the north; blowing directly on our bow.  Not a good choice for heading north.  Guess we'll be here a few more days. 

Not much today - the skies are filled with those little airplanes that drag big signs behind them.  There is a group of 5 of them that are all promoting Las Vegas and fly together.  We caught 4 of them.


A nice sunset last night (along with the music to go with it....)


It's probably just as well that we stayed here.  Luke hab a bad told.  I know he doesn't feel good when he naps during the day.  Hoping he's better soon, but those things tend to drag out way too long.  I'm trying to stay as far away from him as possible on this small boat!


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