Joan Healy started her boating endeavours with a small canoe and it soon turned into a long time love affair with boats and boating. Like most of us, she started in a small boat and learned along the way, finally achieving her long time dream of live-aboard cruising. Joan has written this highly illustrated book to help the first time Snow Birds understand the ICW and what to expect from this diverse, ever changing boater’s highway to the south. This is not a cruising guide book. You will not find listings of the best anchorages, lovely restaurants or fancy marinas. In these pages you will find what it will be like to make the trip the first time. You will learn what to expect, what you will see, and often, what you should avoid. If you are considering this trip for the first time or the twentieth, you owe it to yourself to read this book.