Port Everglades/Fort Lauderdale Jetties - Cruise Ships, Cargo Ships, Yachts, Sailboats & Wildlife

Compilation featuring the incredible viewing area on the Fort Lauderdale Jetties Beach, along the mouth of the Stranahan River, leading into Lake Mabel and Port Everglades. You can swim, fish on the jetty, watch the abundant boat traffic coming and going all day, from sailboats and catamarans to yachts of all sizes, chartered fishing boats, dinghies, cargo freight liners, cruise ships launching with their Coast Guard machine gun escorts, as well as watch the planes taking off from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and tour helicopters flying passengers over the ocean. There’s also pelicans, ospreys, terns and gulls, all gliding by and dive bombing for fish. It’s a rare and spectacular location in terms of what you can potentially see, and is as close as you can possibly get to the cruise ships launching without actually being in Port Everglades itself. This, and Miami’s South Pointe Park Pier, where you can watch the ships launching from the Port of Miami and planes taking off from Miami International, are the only two locations like this in the entire region, and rare for anywhere in the country.

The first day I decided to attempt to visit this kind of hard to access beach, having no idea if it would even pan out (and which was only made possible by posting an inquiry comment to another YouTuber who was kind enough to respond right away with tips for where to park and how to access), I didn’t realize it was the same day as the annual Ft. Lauderdale Air & Sea Show. So that was pretty cool, and you’ll see a little of that in this vid as well. Pretty much every vid used in this compilation features multiple things listed above, so there’s never only just one thing happening.

For fun I also added some stats for each ship, if I was able to locate them, including ships’ rankings in terms of the largest cruise ships in the world. If I don’t include a worldwide ranking number then it means the ship is “too small” and didn’t appear on the list. (Which is kind of funny, because even the small ships look huge – which is exactly why I put the stats, to provide that comparison for viewers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... )

NOTE: There's no time lapse speed up in these vids, which you tend to see in other cruise ship spotting vids. The point of my vid is to hopefully make viewers feel relaxed, and convey what it’s like to actually be there on the jetty, having the full “South Florida ocean experience,” in regular time, and complete with all the natural sounds.

Enjoy……

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00:00:31 - Royal Caribbean's "Allure of the Seas" / Cool looking sailboat / Boat / Coast Guard machine gun escort
00:06:31 - Celebrity Cruise's "Edge" with horn blasts / Sailboat & boats / Coast Guard machine gun escort / Rouge Airlines plane
00:11:16 - Yacht-Transport.com cargo ship coming into port filled w/yachts & flanked by tug boats
00:14:08 - Sailboats / Gull
00:16:01 - Cargo ship heading out to sea / Boats / Blue Angels flyby for the Fort Lauderdale Air & Sea Show
00:17:02 - Smaller boats & yachts / Another Blue Angels flyby, and doing aerial maneuvers w/smoke
00:18:41 - Another Blue Angel flyby
00:19:01 - Celebrity Cruise's "Equinox" w/horn blasts / Boats
00:25:42 - Carnival Cruise's "Carnival Sunrise" / Boats & yachts
00:30:51 - Huge Maersk cargo ship coming into port / Southwest Airlines plane
00:33:28 - Princess Cruise's "Island Princess" w/horn blasts / Stalled boat in the river w/Coast Guard response / Boats & yachts
00:39:38 - Cargo ship heading out to sea / Southwest Airlines plane
00:41:22 - Royal Caribbean's "Majesty of the Seas" / Broward County Sheriff's escort / Pelican gliding over the water / Boats
00:47:12 - Princess Cruise's "Pacific Princess" w/horn blasts & Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas right behind it / Coast Guard machine gun escort / Pelican
00:51:59 - Royal Caribbean's "Independence of the Seas" w/horn blasts / Boats / Girls on jetty who can see their friends or family on the ship, waving & yelling :D / Sailboat
00:58:07 - Holland America Line's "Nieuw Amsterdam" w/horn blasts / Boats & yachts
01:05:31 - Cargo ship heading out to sea / Sailboat / United Airlines plane / Boats & yachts / Tour helicopter / Flock of pelicans
01:08:59 - Carnival Cruise's "Carnival Magic" / Boats / Coast Guard machine gun escort
01:15:11 - Princess Cruise's "Regal Princess" w/musical "Love Boat" horn / Dive bombing Pelican / Boats
01:20:50 - Holland America Line's "Nieuw Statendam" w/horn blasts / Coast Guard machine gun escort
01:22:40 - Pelican flying, hovering, dive bombing w/ Regal Princess in distance
01:23:42 - Royal Caribbean's "Majesty of the Seas" w/horn blasts / Allegiant Airlines / Coast Guard machine gun escorts
01:27:22 - Princess Cruise's "Regal Princess" again w/even clearer musical "Love Boat" horn
01:28:31 - Cargo ship heading out to sea / Yachts