Day five’s photo comes from our Florida Holiday some years back. We flew into Miami stayed the night at an airport hotel and then picked up our car and set off . Our first couple of days stop was at Fort Lauderdale. While we were there we took a paddle steamer trip around the local section of the intercastal waterway.
Long disparaged as Miami’s lesser northern neighbour, Fort Lauderdale has recently come into its own with a renovated waterfront, a burgeoning culinary scene, and beaches worthy of palm-swept daydreams bringing rightful attention to the Venice of America. Stretching 3,000 miles (4,800 km) between the United States’ Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the city’s Intracoastal Waterway provides easy access to maritime activities and on-shore attractions along the 300 miles of inland canals that wind through south Florida’s unmistakable sky-high resorts and Everglades ecosystem. The Basics Aside from serving as a means of transportation, the Intracoastal Waterway offers countless opportunities for recreation, especially in Fort Lauderdale’s year-round sunshine. From classy dinner and sightseeing cruises to riverfront gondola tours, visitors can enjoy the water in whatever fashion floats their boat as they travel past forested coasts at Port Everglades.
May I say that was just the start of a wonderful holiday. With visits to Cocoa beach, Kennedy Space Center, St. Augustine, Jacksonville and Miami .
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