Not exactly beach weather.
Bit grey and overcast. Not ideal for the private beach club…so… Everglades it is!
Texted Valet to bring the car round. It took about ten minutes to arrive. You heard the damn thing from a block away. Even driving sedately it sounds like a hooligan arriving.
It’s just over an hour to the Everglades National Park East entrance. Miami driving is interesting. Best described as real world Mario Karts. For reference BMW drivers are awful, but are made to look competent by Chevy Silverado drivers.
Picked up a map from the visitors centre and decided to head to the Southernmost point – Flamingo Key I think.
Not sure what I expected… more.. erm… evergladey? Didn’t look that boggy? It was like driving through fields…
I didn’t know the Nike Missile defences were based here in the Everglades. Shame it’s not open until later in the year. Would have been interesting to know more about these. Amazing rockets… most rockets are fairly slow to launch, these were supersonic within a second of launch and could do over 3000mph.
Disappointed to discover visitors centre was closed for refurb!
The absence of a cafe meant buying food from the Marina shop. This lead to several bad decisions, but mainly the Reeses cupcakes.
Not good. Essentially a diabetes delivery system.
I was kicked out of the car to wonder up and down by this lake area. In essence I was bait. Didn’t work, no ‘gators spotted.
Admitted defeat and set off back to Miami Beach in rush hour traffic.
I had assumed he’d have been a carpenter,..
Driving a 500bhp car in the wet, in busy fast traffic is a joy. The throttle control is a bitch. It’s a bit inconsistent with how it increases power and in the worst case will drop 6 (yes 6) gears from 10th to 4th. Which is nasty. So, you either stick it in sports which holds gears longer so is more predictable but every shift is hard as nails or try and remember to paddle shift before accelerating.
Still… it’s a bloody good laugh!?!
We dropped the car back with the valet and checked out the weather…