Here we are in Miami enjoying the lovely warm weather – it’s hard to believe this is winter and can only imagine what summer must be like!
This our 4th night in the marina – fortunately it’s a municipal marina so quite reasonably priced. It’s got nice restrooms, laundry and great staff but big downside is the lack of wi-fi. Hence the lack of regular posts and more especially photos.
However in the last few days we’ve managed to get the dinghy repaired, the provisions topped up, and the laundry done. We also paid a visit to the customs and immigration at the port to organize our departure and today we did a bit of sightseeing – well if that’s what you could call it!
In order to take the dinghy in and collect it again we needed to have some kind of transport – so we hired a pickup truck – only $19.95 for 8 hours and 59c/mile. Well, since I’ve been doing all the driving here and am supposedly used to it now (on the wrong side of the road and all), I was once again the nominated driver. As you can imagine the pickup is slightly larger than my low slung, narrow Toyota Celica! Lance seemed to be sitting so far away in the passenger seat!
Anyway we decided to go to South Beach, find a McDonalds to tap into their wi-fi and of course look at the beach and perhaps even go for a walk on it. Well that was the plan!
The main road of South Beach was long and narrow, with cars and people everywhere. We couldn’t even see the beach as there were parks, buildings and dunes – besides I was concentrating on keeping the pickup in our lane without taking out any pedestrians, cyclists or other vehicles! One side of the road was lined with restaurants (not McDonalds!) and each one had valet parking charging about $10 to $15. So this added a new dimension- cars stopping, drivers getting out (remember the drivers are on the left so they step out into our lane), valet drivers getting in and nosing out in to the traffic! Suffice to say we beat a hasty retreat from South Beach and headed up to North Beach where we did find a McDonalds, a parking for the monster truck and a place to go for a walk on the beach. 
Sad to say we didn’t see Horatio or any of the CSI team around!
21 Dec 2011 – On the hunt for CSI
Here we are in Miami enjoying the lovely warm weather – it’s hard to believe this is winter and can only imagine what summer must be like!
This our 4th night in the marina – fortunately it’s a municipal marina so quite reasonably priced. It’s got nice restrooms, laundry and great staff but big downside is the lack of wi-fi. Hence the lack of regular posts and more especially photos.
However in the last few days we’ve managed to get the dinghy repaired, the provisions topped up, and the laundry done. We also paid a visit to the customs and immigration at the port to organize our departure and today we did a bit of sightseeing – well if that’s what you could call it!
In order to take the dinghy in and collect it again we needed to have some kind of transport – so we hired a pickup truck – only $19.95 for 8 hours and 59c/mile. Well, since I’ve been doing all the driving here and am supposedly used to it now (on the wrong side of the road and all), I was once again the nominated driver. As you can imagine the pickup is slightly larger than my low slung, narrow Toyota Celica! Lance seemed to be sitting so far away in the passenger seat!
Anyway we decided to go to South Beach, find a McDonalds to tap into their wi-fi and of course look at the beach and perhaps even go for a walk on it. Well that was the plan!
The main road of South Beach was long and narrow, with cars and people everywhere. We couldn’t even see the beach as there were parks, buildings and dunes – besides I was concentrating on keeping the pickup in our lane without taking out any pedestrians, cyclists or other vehicles! One side of the road was lined with restaurants (not McDonalds!) and each one had valet parking charging about $10 to $15. So this added a new dimension- cars stopping, drivers getting out (remember the drivers are on the left so they step out into our lane), valet drivers getting in and nosing out in to the traffic! Suffice to say we beat a hasty retreat from South Beach and headed up to North Beach where we did find a McDonalds, a parking for the monster truck and a place to go for a walk on the beach.
Sad to say we didn’t see Horatio or any of the CSI team around!