Southbound - presently in Miami Beach- FEB-2010

We sailed (really motor/sailed) down from Fort Lauderdale on Sunday.  We're now anchored on the south side of the Venetian Causeway near Miami Beach.  We'll stay here for a while...

We've been traveling on and off with the two sailing vessels shown here (S/V catamaran Double Exposure; and during the last few weeks the S/V Bewitched) 
Photo taken in Peck Lake (near Hobe Sound) on the way south.  

The next photo is of the crews of these vessels; (Rick, Sue, Mike, Vickie, Susan, Dean) 

When we arrived in Miami, and entered through the Dodge Cut we saw the container ship "Intrepid" from Panama... with the Containers ajar.  It began to list near Key West, and 30 containers broke loose and fell into the Gulf Stream.  Most sank. The USCG is tracking (sort of) those that continue to move north in the Gulf Stream.

These containers are very dangerous for boaters, as they float nearly submerged (with tops barely awash)  ---  very hard to see....