This week has been spent slowly traveling up the ICW. We spent two nights in Ft. Lauderdale, then traveled to Palm Beach on Wednesday, Stuart on Thursday, and today to Vero Beach. Tomorrow we will head to Melbourne, and then Titusville, St. Augustine, and finally last stop in Florida in Jacksonville. We had hoped to be able to travel outside and get further each day, but the waters have not been good for traveling outside so it will be the ICW all the way up.

The number of huge mansions and yachts along the ICW has been amazing. The marina in Palm Beach was within walking distance of Worth Avenue, where there are lots of exclusive shops and restaurants. We passed by a real estate office as we walked there and of course had to look at all the pictures of houses and condo units for sale. We saw a couple of small condo units just under a million dollars, but most were well over a million, with many of them with multi-million dollar asking prices. Several of the condo units listed the quarterly maintenance fees – they were all $4500-5000 per quarter!

Since we left Miami Beach Monday morning we have passed under 56 bridges, including 14 drawbridges that we had to request openings because they were too low for us to pass under in their closed position. That’s a lot of bridges!