The distance from Palm Beach to Miami is only 70 miles but for most boats its impossible to do in one day. There are more than 32 draw bridges between Lake Worth and Miami and most boats cannot get more than 50 miles to Ft Lauderdale. Sailboats of any size have to go outside at Ft Lauderdale since the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami is only 55 feet high even though all high rise bridges across the ICW are supposed to be 65 feet high. No one really seems to know why the bridge was built that way. Local legend says the state DOT put the bridge up for bid with the wrong height specified and the contractor built it that way even though he knew better. Anyway we were able to make the trip in one day since we can lower the mast and pass under all but 5 of the bridges.
A couple of pictures. Downtown Miami in the late afternoon, and a shot of the cranes in the Port of Miami on Dodge Island. Miami is the last city going south. The towns in the Keys are basically strips along both sides of US1. As a stretch Key West could be called a city but there are lots of other better adjectives for Key West.
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