Fort Lauderdale. Overview.
Fort Lauderdale is often called the Venice of the Gold Coast with its interconnected waterways. It is 40 miles North of Miami and is a city of islands built on canals, bays and waterways which you can see on water taxis. Then lounge on its beaches along the Atlantic Coast.
It is divided into roughly three areas. The beach is East of the Intracoastal Waterway, downtown on the mainland, and Port Everglades Port South of the city.
It is also considered by some to be the best yachting city in the world, partly because you can sail to exotic new places such as Rio de Janeiro. These floating luxury gin palaces afford their owners a lifestyle of such greed, mortal visitors can only gawp at them in disbelief and laugh. Although mega boats, they are ugly compared to their 18c/19c sail boat teak counterparts with beautiful red sails which discovered the rest of the world without an engine. These hunks of materialism would find it hard to look a six foot wave in the eye! Yachts here provide good employment for skilled crew, chefs, and yacht builders.
Fort Lauderdale has become a high class holiday resort to suit all budgets.