Fort Lauderdale KOA
Davie, Florida
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Fort Lauderdale / Port Everglades Inlet from Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park.
Marc- Today we explored areas where we had visited on a Holland America Cruise Ship in 2018 and on board Lucy III in 2020 and 2021. The waters are incredibly clear and we cannot get over the aquamarine tint. There were several large cruise ships in port and one was the sister ship of the Holland America ship from our cruise. Our neighbors at the campground left today for a cruise on this Holland America ship. They are from the Northern end of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
The Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park sits on the barrier island protecting Port Everglades where many Cruise ships and Container ships dock. The Intracoastal Waterway also passes on the West side of the island. It makes for a busy place. Fort Lauderdale International Airport is just to the West of the Port area and many planes were flying overhead today. The Island is a fantastic resource here with its mangroves, sea grapes and gumbo limbo trees. It even has a navigable creek that cuts though it: "Whiskey Creek." I do not know how we missed this place when we came South in the Lucy III. The Island has a large launching ramp with tie up area in the North and a full service City Marina in the South (unfortunately a 20 foot vertical clearance bridge keeps sailboats out of the marina).
Sue and I enjoyed lunch at the Whiskey Creek Restaurant (the fish and chips were excellent). We also walked on several trails and the beach for 3.3 miles.
Holland America Cruise Ship across from Whiskey Creek.
Whiskey Creek Hideout Restaurant on the left.
View from our table.
Note jet overhead (jets kept coming every in a steady stream).
Several views of Dania Beach.
Northern part of Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park across from the Cruise Ship Terminal.
(Photo courtesy of Google.)
Sue- Today we visited Once Upon a Quilt in Ft. Lauderdale. It is a very nice full service quilt store. The ladies who work there are so nice and helpful. The 2 quilts pictured below have a lot of embroidery in them. They were hanging up high, which is why the photos are not so great. On the Halloween one Marc noticed something fun on the tombstone near the bottom right: "Here lies an unfinished quilt. May it rest in pieces." Near the center there is a purple patch that says "Broom parking only. All others will be stitched in the ditch." Another says "Here lies Alma Scraps."
They had a lot of gorgeous fabric, including Kaffe Fasset, Tilda, Riley Blake and Tula Pink. I spent a lot of money on Tula Pink Alice in Wonderland fabric called "Curiouser and Curiouser." I found a pattern awhile ago that is all books, and the woman who created the pattern made her quilt in this fabric. It is a 2016 line, so I did not think I would ever find it. I got 7 different fabrics in the line. I am rating this store an A+. They even had Cinderella's coach (full of bolts of material and other cool stuff) and a glass slipper, in keeping with their fairy tale-like name.
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