Saturday, April 26, 2008

4/26/08 sights on the riverfront

We took a 90 minute cruise down The New River which is the longest deep river or the shortest long river . . . something like that. It reaches depths of 45-100 feet but is only 2.9 miles long. We had a guide who pointed out sights along the way. I took a lot of photos but I'm not sure I'll remember what is what. Just know that this is a teeny tiny portion of what we saw.

This little yellow house with a yellow boat out in front is the house of the mayor. It's an older home from "a different era" and was modest and cute, I thought. There were many mega-mansions along the way that had no lawns because the house took up the whole lot. I preferred these cute, older, "original" homes.

This yacht was built in Italy and cost over 29 million dollars.

Cool! We got to see the draw bridge draw. There were 3 sailboats, 2 coming at us and 1 behind us, that had masts so tall they had to raise the draw bridge.

This one's for Steve. This is the 28 million dollar home and the 11 million dollar yacht of the commissioner of the NBA.

This was the very first house in Fort Lauderdale. It's now a museum.

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