17th St Causeway Ft Lauderdale – Where The Big White Boats Are
This is kind of a companion article to the Jim Clark Athena article – what the heck I’m shooting his boat and there’s all these beautiful superyachts nearby so I thought I’d do a quickie on the boats and the causeway itself.
The 17th St. Causeway Bridge – it’s a 62-million dollar bridge (Source ) and is one of the largest in South Florida.
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“The new 17th Street Causeway Bridge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was constructed along the alignment of the previous drawbridge. The cost of the transformation was $62 million. The new bridge was completed in 2001.
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The new bridge increases the vertical clearance from 25ft to 55ft and the channel width from 100ft to 125ft. The 17th Street approach spans are made of twin variable depth – constant slope concrete segmental bridges, built using a combination of balanced cantilever and progressive cantilever construction methods.
CARINA PIER
The Carina Pier at the bridge’s midspan houses the counterweights that raise the bascule leaves vessels need to pass through the bridge. This allows for a simple rigid connection to the segmental approach spans.”
Bet ya didn’t know all that. Bet ya didn’t know they were called “bascule leaves”. So much for the bridge. More interesting is the boats you’ll see parked nearby. Just south of the causeway is the Port Everglades complex, where you’ll go to get on board a cruise ship from Ft. Lauderdale.
Looking north from under the causeway, you see the big boats
The Gallant Lady heading south at Ft Lauderdale
The Gallant Lady
The Argyll docked at Ft Lauderdale
The Argyll docked at Ft Lauderdale
MadSummer docked At Ft Lauderdale
MadSummer docked At Ft Lauderdale
Domani docked At Ft Lauderdale
Domani docked At Ft Lauderdale
Aquisition docked At Ft Lauderdale (Savoy in the background)
Savoy docked At Ft Lauderdale
La Iguana docked At Ft Lauderdale
La Iguana docked At Ft Lauderdale (see Iguana logo on the side)
Shandor docked At Ft Lauderdale (next to Athena)
Sunrise docked At Ft Lauderdale (MadSummer aft)
Sunrise docked At Ft Lauderdale
Then of course you’ve got all of the surrounding activity with several bars, restaurants, hotels and tour companies such as the water taxi service, the Duck Ride, Jungle Queen, and various marina and fishing boat services.
Awesome tiki bar at The Hilton
The view from the top of the Hilton, Ft. Lauderdale downtown
Ducky Ride
Dishonorable mention: The Jungle Queen
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