The view from the hotel room. Ninth floor at the Doubletree on Sunrise Blvd. You can see the inland waterway and, in the distance, the ocean.
Another view from the room. This one's the opposite direction, towards downtown.
Now, you have to remember, there's LOTS of money in Ft. Lauderdale. I saw yachts, boats with baby boats, and one with a helicopter. Don't believe me? Scroll down and see.
What's this, a 70 foot yacht? The one below is a closer shot of the helicopter on the back of the yacht.
The little white specs you see on the front, just ahead of the windows on the second deck, are people. But this yacht wasn't as big as the one with the helicopter.
Even the catamaran's are big. The doors you see at the back are regular size doors even though it doesn't look like it in the picture.
If you have money, you can park your boat behind your house due to the inland water ways that can be found throughout Ft. Lauderdale. As you ride down Las Olas Blvd in Ft. Lauderdale, every other block is a bridge over an inland waterway. The others are the streets. If you have a house there you can literally drive up to your house, go in the front door, go out the back door and be on your boat in less than a minute. They don't have big yards but the yards they do have are nice looking with the tropical plants that decorate almost all of the yards in that area. Here are some pictures of the road, then the houses, then the waterway, then the houses, then the road, etc.
In the following picture you can see the white bridge going over the waterway to the residential area from Las Olas Blvd, which is on the far left, just on the other side of that palm tree. I took this standing on the side of Las Olas Blvd.
You can see the white bridge on the right of the following photo, behind the yacht (directly under the pink glare line). Again, this was taken from Las Olas Blvd.
There's this little park at the corner of Sunrise and A1A (the road beside the board walk) where the raccoons come out at might some times and wait beside the road for people to stop and give them food. You can see, in the following photo, all of their eyes glowing in the dark.
In this picture, taken right after the last one, they are flocking to the car looking for something to eat. I am surprised at how readily they approach the vehicle. I have to blow my horn several times to get them to back away from the car so that I can pull away with out hitting one of them.
