Day 1-- Ft Lauderdale --onboard the Maasdam

Dropped the rental car off at Hertz..at the terminal 945am..onboard at 1115..nice and smooth...had lunch with a couple of friends..good stuff..

Heading south-er-er

Well our next adventure begins..driving down  to Ft Pierce on the start of our cruise..stay over nite and board the Maasdam Friday morning..be nice to see old friends onboard

a wild and crazy sky

another 5 mile walk before Sunrise on the west end of Sunset Beach as we approached the rock-jetties.. I kept on looking back and spotted this beautiful sky in the pre-sunrise hour

just before sunrise two photogs setting up

a bit closer ..zoomed in

at the jetties

a lone balloon

well before sunrise

and away we go

..middle of the tide so it was a 'back to norma'l walk to the jetties-- 4miles as we usually do..  nice sunrise..51*  so I guess this will be it.. no more 'heat' in the early morning sunrise hour .. got up to 77* this afternoon .. a perfect sunny day

quiet on the beach

again with high tide it was back to the jetties for us.. another 4 mile early morning sunrise walkj with just a couple of walker out there ..the flowers in our front yard are enjoying plenty of sunshine with the 'kewler' temps

a walk to Tubbs Inlet

with high tide carrying the surf onto most of the beachfront  it forced us to alter our 4 mile walk once again.. a kewl but pretty morning with temps at 51*.. turned into a nice day with highs into the low 70's with the sun shinning..

a sunrise walk.. a solar eclipse sunset

with high tide taking over the beach we had to alter our daily beach walk to the east end toward Tubbs Inlet..saw many sharks washed up on the beach at the surf line.. my guess is that they were discarded in gill nets as by-catch.. ugly stuff..  45* at sunrise.. mucho brrrrrrr... warmed up to 71* during the sunny day...we decided to go back to the beach for the partial solar eclipse that was just before sunset... seems weird out there during sunset with all the sunrises I see.. anyway the eclipse was outrun by the sunset.. at least we did see hundreds of dolphin putting on a show for us from just behind the surf line and out as far as you could see.. what a show ..

walk on the beach

ouch..ooch..ouch

Dolphins putting on a show

not dressed for the beach--cowboy boots

a 'pacman' partial solar eclipse just before sunset