We left the comforts of our boat to the comforts of hotels with pools, air conditioning and long showers. Bliss! Funny the things you miss and you landlubbers take for granted.

Miami – South Beach

Well we stopped in South Beach for a few nights. Always an interesting place with lots going on.

Sorry can’t buy any of these shoes, the styles just won’t work on the boat.

Hired bikes from Bike & Roll for one day and went from South Beach over MacArthur Causeway through the downtown to Biscane Key through to Vizcaya a beautiful Italian villa built in 1916 and owned and built by John Deering. The bike ride through town was fun given the high rise buildings all around us.

Vizcaya Museum was huge. John Deering, an American multi millionaire in his time appeared to live the high life.The gardens have 10 acres of incredibly maintained gardens along the shoreline of Biscane Bay. Very ostentatious.

There were all these young 16 year old Cuban girls wandering around getting their photos taken in the gardens,which we found out was a popular thing to do for their coming of age photos. It was hot so we were impressed with the huge dresses they wore in the heat yet they still looked amazing.

Our day from cycling ended at Monties on the boardwalk near South Point where we sat and watched life go by in Miami; a busy place.

Enjoyed Miami and just hanging out watching people, eating some good food and sleeping with air-conditioning.

Off to Panama.