Martha and I are in Fort Lauderdale, FL since Wednesday this week.
We're waiting to board the cruise ship we'll be taking over to Dover, England, UK on Saturday.
From Dover, we'll take a puddle jumper to Bilbao, Spain. More on that in a couple of weeks. It's going to take just about that to cross the North Atlantic onboard the Holland America Nieuw Statendam:
In the meantime though, we're killing time in the city of Fort Lauderdale. The area we're in is close to the cruise ship port for obvious reasons.
We called for a Lyft and we tried the Stranahan Museum near the city's downtown area on Thursday. Located in the home of Frank and Ivy Stranahan. Considered the founding father of Fort Lauderdale, he originally came down to run a ferry crossing across the New River in 1901.
Here's a pic of the family home a few years later:
Things have gotten a bit more "built up" since 1906:
Typical museum of someone's home, I'll not bore you with pics of the rooms' furnishings and such. In the office section, though, there was a display of items traded by the native Seminole tribe. I found the small baby gator interesting....
We didn't spend a lot of time in the museum. There's really not much to it after all and we decided to walk a portion of the Riverwalk. Basically, a path along both sides of the New River.
Here's one of the neighborhood yachts making its way under one of the several bridges crossing the river:
This part of the city was definitely designed and oriented towards boat owners as you can see. Pricey too.
Lunch was at one the main tourist drag, a place called Voodoo Bayou. Pricey but tasty lunch specials were had by us.
The bar sported the following theme....I'm guessing they were emulating the quasi-religious aspects of Voodoo?
After lunch the crowds had thickened on the streets and the heat and humidity had gotten to us. After a quick stop for snacks at a nearby Publix grocery store, we called a Lyft ride and returned to the hotel.
There's a dearth of "attractions" which are of interest to both of us, so we'll hang out here at the hotel today. We board ship tomorrow afternoon.
