Celebrity Sightings on the ICW

After a wonderful evening with our friends Curt & Eva, we slept peacefully.  Even the kids slept in, it was so nice.  We woke up and got the boat ready and scooted down the ICW.  It was so nice not to be thrashed about.  It was simply a blissful day.

We saw some beautiful houses along the ICW.  These are near Jupiter, I wouldn't mind living in one of these!

We kept joking about which celebrity lived in which house.  We saw one with an Australian flag that I was sure was Greg Norman's.  Ryan was skeptical, but then he got into the game with me.  We decided the one with a basketball court in the back was Kobe's.

As we were gawking at the houses, a large-ish fishing boat (a Hatteras type, but not sure if that was the maker) came up behind us rapidly.  We all braced for his gigantic wake.  At the last minute he slowed down and passed us without tossing up much of a wake.  I noticed a dark skinned man, my first thought was that he was Mexican, with two kids sitting in his lap on the bow.  They were young kids and were not wearing life jackets.  And this boat did not have stanchions and lifelines on the bow.  I grimaced at the guy as he politely waved to us.  A minute later Ryan said "hey, THAT was Tiger Woods!"  I thought about it and reluctantly agreed as I replayed that image in my head.  The boat was named Solitude.  I know his big boat is (or was) named Privacy and we guess maybe after the divorce Solitude was more his speed now.  We were certain, after discussion, that it was in fact Tiger Woods we saw on that boat with his kids.  I was hugely upset that he had those kids on the bow with no life jackets on.  Ryan was unfazed about that.  I went below to get the camera, although it was too late.  Then, lo & behold, I saw the boat approaching us.

This time Tiger had only his dog on the bow (and some woman talking on a cell phone - we figured her to be some sort of handler, she wasn't hot enough to be, well,  you know).  So we rationalized that he took the kids back to Elin's house (Ryan said he read she had a house South of Jupiter) and was headed back home.  We guess he got the dog in the divorce.  It was a pretty dog, a border collie, I think.  He scowled at us when he saw I had a camera, and I was embarrassed to be taking his photo, that's why it's from such a distance.  I should have just been ballsy and stepped out on the deck to take a photo, but for some reason I didn't want to invade his privacy.  Poor schmuck, I think only his dog likes him now.

We moved on down the ICW and we stopped at an anchorage on Lake Worth in West Palm.  We swam until dinner time, jamming to Bob Marley and some steel pans music.  We ate fresh mahi for dinner, and now we are going to sleep.  We anchored near a spoil area, so as long as we don't wake up aground we're good.

Tomorrow we're heading down the ICW to around Boca Raton, and Thursday we'll be in Miami.  Thursday is Evan's 3rd birthday!  He's really excited to celebrate his birthday in Miami, or so he says.  It cracks me up.