Hobe Sound

Hobe (rhymes with 'robe') Sound is part of the AICW up the coast from Miami, and is a smidge north of West Palm Beach. This is where Captain Preston winters '45 North' and it's where we'll board the vessel on 10th and get ready for our departure north on 14 April. We take the 'Brightline' up to the West Palm Beach stop (an 80-min ride at up to 130 km/h between stations) where Preston meets us. He has some stuff to do so hands us his rental car for a couple of days. We drop him off and proceed to the Henry Flagler Museum ('Whitehall') to learn about the man who did the most to create Florida as a destination, by building a massive hotel at St Augustine and then by building a railroad mostly over the sea to Key West.Read more