Dawn on Saturday, May 17
In the early morning, Eric went for a run along the shore to the south of the dock. He was back to Kosmos before the heat set in. It was another roasting hot day. We broke down and turned on the A/C around 1000.
We spent the morning and early afternoon doing chores. Being a Saturday, there was a lot of boat traffic. The speed boats were going fast and got disconcertingly close. All the motion created by the wakes made chores kind of difficult. It was also loud, and several party boats passed by blaring music that we didn’t care for.
We considered moving closer to the bridge, which was a no wake zone, until we realized that the boats small enough to fit under the bridge completely disregarded the no wake signs. The bigger boats that needed to wait for the bridge were already slowing down by the time they neared us. Moving wouldn’t really help.
We went to shore mode-afternoon for a late lunch/early dinner. were craving pizza, so we wandered around downtown and found a pizza place called Nicos a couple blocks west of the French Bakery. The pizza was pretty good, and with the happy hour special, it was a great price.
Afterwards, we got gelato at the CBD/Gelateria place directly across the street from the bakery. This store wins for oddest combination of products that we’ve ever seen. And no, the gelato was not infused with CBD.
After eating, we walked north along the shore, past the marina. The walkway ended at the bridge. The marina was full of large, expensive powerboats. We were struck by the lack of sailboats.
According to the signs dotting the shore, Lake Worth was originally a 20-mile long crystal clear, shallow freshwater lake. Since there was no inlet to the ocean, people would drag their boats over the barrier island to go from the ocean to the lake. An inlet was created in 1876, changing it to a brackish lagoon. In the 1880s, a canal was dug to connect it to a waterway that existed to the north, creating a long navigable channel. In the early 1900s, Lake Worth was incorporated into the Inter Coastal Waterway, and portions of it were deepened to accommodate bigger boats.
After our walk, we went back to Kosmos for the evening. Here was the sun setting behind the buildings.
And the twilight.
