Rocky days

It has been a busy week for us.
First we got Draco ready to leave Stuart.  We are  heading for the keys.  The weather window is good so we are taking off.  Leaving with our buddy boat and now good friends on Spindrift.  Rick Flack and Sandy Parrish (and dog Twinkles).  First stop was Peck Lake a good anchorage, we have been to before, about 2 hours away.  We anchored here for afternoon and evening.  Joe and I went and walked on the beach looking for turtle nesting sites and the DNR had several marked out no hatching's yet. Left next day early and headed for Lake Worth still on the ICW, about 30 miles.  Had to go through 6 bridges and some pretty tight quarters with some very large boats.  Some of the boats were headed home from the West Palm Beach Boat Show. We anchored for night and took dinghy over to Peanut Island, took a long walk around the Island.  Found out later it used to be an emergency bunker for President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis.  Went back to boat and Joe put on his snorkel gear and went under the boat.  While we were at Peck Lake we heard a scraping sound under the boat and though we may have caught on something but the underside of the boat was clear.  Joe scraped the barnacles off the prop and we were good to go.  Next morning we left at 7:15 A.M. and headed out the Lake Worth cut to the Atlantic Ocean we were finally going to get off the ICW and do some ocean sailing.  Sun was coming up on the clear horizon as we motored Draco out into the blue green ocean the winds were about 5 out of the north but we hoisted sail anyway.  Put a preventer line on the main and turned south.  As the day went on the winds got a little better and clocked around to the ENE but we got rocked buy some pretty serious wakes from bigger boats.  Things below went flying but we found out what we needed to stow away. We went about 50 miles at 4 to 6 miles per hour it took all day, motored into Ft. Lauderdale into Lake Sylvia.  OMG you should see the huge mega yachts and homes around the canals in Ft. Lauderdale. It was a long rocky day.  Looked at charts cooked dinner and went to bed early.   Didn't have the energy to launch the dinghy and look around just drooled in passing.  Next day got up left at 8:00 A.M. headed for Miami.  No winds today so we motored the entire way.
Going to bed will finish the rest of story which gets better tomorrow.  TTFN.