Try going out on the water for the midnight opening of Lobster Mini Season in South Florida. The boat ramps,the ICW, and the inlets are crazy. Mini Season is bad, but it is not the worst.
Fort Lauderdale's Winterfest boat parade, is insane on the water. People who never take their boats out of the shed, load way to many people on board, anchor in the ICW, and proceed to drink for 4 hours before motoring back to their storage marina, slip or the ramp in the dark. The small anchorages off of the parade route are complete bumper boats. We have watched this event from shore since I was a kid, but last year we took our kids out in the Stargazer to see what it was like. We went early to get a good anchoring spot, and then had two later boats drop anchor, and back down right over our rode. Then a 25-27' center console loaded with drunk teenagers dropped 10' in front of us, and started partying like crazy. Playing loud extremely vulgar booty rap music, drowning out the Christmas music from the parade boats. They had girls dancing on their hardtop, and peeing off the transom. We heard several of the boats surrounding us call marine patrol to get them removed, but every time the sheriffs' boat came by, they lowered the music, and calmed down until he moved on. We may go again this year, but I will try to find a private dock to tie off to instead of the public anchorages.
