After a day and night at sea, the temperature warmed nicely when we pulled into Ft. Lauderdale Port, the last of 7 cruise ships in the harbor that day. Ft. Lauderdale is officially the largest cruise port in the US. Very impressive and they are building more space. 250 passengers boarded.

We were very happy to see an excursion to the Everglades offered by QM2 and we took it. We had driven across Aligator Alley a couple of times but never stopped to meet the locals. It's well worth it and fear not, you will see many and large aligators