We had so much fun on Lake Boca Raton watching the “Boca Sunday Funday” that we decided to stay for 3 nights. Some weird Boca facts by Movato.com (Disclaimer: I have no idea if they are true). Just a few listed below.
#11. Boca Raton is home to the Boca Bash, one day a year when party-goers wake up early, throw on their bathing suits, and grab whatever boat, float, or paddle board they have for an all-day, music-blaring, police-tolerated massive party on the Boca Inlet.
#12. Boca Raton is a homestead for the rich and famous. Just a couple of major names that have or had homes in Boca include John Henry, who owns the Red Sox, Donald Trump, Sheryl Sandberg, Rush Limbaugh, Jon Bon Jovi, Marilyn Manson, Maury Povich and Connie Chung.
#16. The IBM computer was invented, not in Silicon Valley, but in Boca Raton.
#20. The beloved novel and recent film adaptation “Marley and Me” takes place in Boca Raton.
#33. The highest point in all of Boca Raton is 24 feet above sea level, and it’s located in the guard shack at Camino Gardens
We arrived in Lake Boca Raton on Friday night and found the anchorage almost empty. early Saturday morning the boats started to parade in and anchor pretty much anywhere they could find space. Up North there would have been blood spilled if people anchored so close to you but alas the crowd here was very friendly and I did not see a single argument.
In Lake Boca we got to see the Fire & Rescue boat testing their pump.
Lake Boca is the party spot on the weekends. We had lots of fun dinking around the anchorage and people watching.
At one point there was a guy flying around our boat in what I call an Iron Man suit but maybe you might call it a jet-pack or aqua-pack or fly board?
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We were also surprised when the boat next to us starting playing “Here comes the bride”. We got to invited to a wedding!
But alas it was time to return to Simple Life and get a refill.
The next morning we were underway/making way South down the ICW. It was all beautiful homes, bridges.
The first boat named “Gallant Lady” is Jim Moran‘s. We stopped at Lighthouse Point Marina for some fuel, pumpout, water and ice and chatted for a bit. The dockhand mentioned that Jim had a boat in their marina and pointed to a $159M mansion just across the ICW which was Florida’s most expensive real estate.
Le Palais Royal mansion in Hillsboro Beach
We passed several watering holes but we wanted to arrive in Lake Silvia in Fort Lauderdale while there was still space to drop anchor.
We finally arrived at our anchorage in Lake Silvia in Fort Lauderdale.
It’s nice here I think we’ll stay a bit.
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