Yesterday’s blog post was about our marina’s Labor Day party and how some of the party goers went a bit overboard. Men were a hootin’ and a hollerin’ while women used a nearby flag pole as a dance pole, spinning and twirling around it. The …
Sept. 4 – Saugerties, NY
Heading SouthEsopus CreekAs hard as it was to leave the wonderful little town of Waterford and our friends on Gallivant, we started our trek south today. It’s amazing the difference one day can make in the weather. Yesterday was Labor Da…
Beardstown IL
(Tuesday Sept 4 – Dist: 79.8 mi; Avg Speed: 9.7 mph;
Locks: 1; LWT: 0 mins; TTT: 8:25 hrs)
There is Headquarters and Q’s End tied up to the barges for the night. With the lower water levels we hav…
September 3 and 4, 2012: Bay Hill Marina to Aqua Yacht Harbor, AL
Monday the 3rd: It has been a while since I last posted on our blog. Our plans to go to Chattanooga have been postponed and or cancelled again. We got to our friends at Bay Hill Marina in Athens, AL, and due to the hurricane “Isaac” we&nb…
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
We had a short cruising day today. We are tied to the lock wall at the Kaskaskia Lock. When we asked Fern at Hoppies where would be good places to stay the rest of the way down the Mississippi River, she told us to stay here tonight and the…
Year 2 Day 159
Today is Tuesday, September 5th and after a very long day (almost 10 hours) we stopped alongside a barge near the town of Beardstown, Illinois. There is no marina here and no town dock but for $1.00 per foot, they'll let you park overnight tied u…
Grafton, Illinois
Illinois River mile marker 0, Mississippi mile marker 218 We pulled off the tug dock at 6:30 this morning watching a front that looked like it would slip south of us—and it did! So, it was much cooler this morning, but we received no rain. A great day to run the 88 miles we needed […]
Scenes From A Circa Party
I’ve just returned home to a hot summer, after a wonderful 5 days down in Whangarei, New Zealand. My sweaters are put away, my coffee doesn’t taste as good as the flat whites, and I’m finding myself missing…the BOAT YARD?? After a solid week’s work, the Circa crew (and Todd and I) donned our new […]
Tawas and Bay City to home…
The Flint Power Squadron, along with the Saginaw Power Squadron, planned a Rendezvous in Tawas Municipal Harbor. We did not plan to attend, but our run home, landed us in Tawas for the Rendezvous. We were pleased to find some friends and make some new …
Presque Isle….as Rick Perry said…oops….
There is a reason to post ASAP. It is easy to become confused traveling port to port. The lighthouse you saw in the Cheboygan writeup is really in Presque Isle. Note that in your head.This is the old lighthouse in Presque Isle. The lighthouse…
