Terms - Palm Bch. - Broward - Dade - Monroe
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TermsFor each ramp I will try to give at least it's Location, the Waterway served and it's general Condition. Again, I will try to Note special features such as fees, hours of operation, restrooms and bait shops or unusual conditions where I can. None of these listings will address the suitability of a ramp for a specific watercraft or the suitability of a particular waterway for specific recreational activities. I wouldn't want to scuba dive in the Everglades or paddle a canoe across Port Everglades, but that doesn't mean nobody else would.
GPS:
Checked mm/yy The date I last visited or used this ramp since I started this list in Oct. '95. The condition of the ramp is obviously the most subjective item. I will usually use Good or Poor to describe the condition of most ramps. Ramps rated either Good or Poor should be usable by persons with a reasonable amount of experience, but you will want to very carefully inspect a Poor site to see if it meets all of your needs. If I consider a ramp Unusable, I either will not list it at all or give specific reasons for my decision. There are a few ramps that may receive a Very Good. They are usually associated with parks and have extended facilities associated with them. Most of these features may be of more interest to the family boater than to the dedicated fisherman. An Excellent rating would probably include valet launching and a free wash-down on return. If I ever find one I may, or may not list it here. If I only know of the location of a ramp, but have absolutely no information about its condition I will give it a Don't Know for condition. It's existence may be as questionable as its condition depending on my source. In making my judgment about the condition of a site I am considering factors such and the ramp's physical size and condition, access to the ramp, docks, parking, maintenance and security. All of these things are lumped together in how comfortable I feel setting out from home to use this site to launch my boat. This decision may be based on my personal observations and experience, or sometimes only on second-hand information that I have not had a chance to verify. All of the factors above can be expected to change with time. Other factors such as wind, tide and boat traffic can change very rapidly and be much more important in the decision to actually launch or not. No opinion given here should ever be substituted for your own personal judgment! |
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Last modified on 04/15/2000.
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New
for the summer of 1998! A little extra help finding the ramp from the highway
or the waterway. The first field is a 6 character waypoint name followed
by Latitude (N) and Longitude (W) in decimal degrees
(ddd.ddddd). Here is the
GPS waypoints file for
Garmin/
I have taken snapshots of the ramps listed for SE Florida that I had ready
access to and posted them here. The first set was taken when Bobbie and I
took a long weekend in the Keys and continued through most of 1996. The Camera
icon at the end of a listing will identify which ramps have photos available.
Just click on the camera to see a picture of that ramp. Click your "Back"
icon to return to this list. I hope this will give you a better idea of what
to expect before starting out for a new ramp. (As you can imagine, the
process of visiting each ramp, taking pictures, getting the film developed,
scanning the pictures and creating the links is a little time consuming and
gets expensive. Now that the set is pretty much complete, I will only update
the descriptions and pictures when I find that there have been changes. I
will update the "Checked on" info when I re-visit or use a ramp to give some
indication of how current the information is.)
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