Salt mines in Praid Romania

The salt mines are massive. We weren’t expecting them to be so large. The Romanian’s believe the mines help with respiratory problems. They generally make a day of it. They have picnic tables, skate boards, pingpong tables, exercise classes, etc. to oc…

Summer daze…

Ahoy, my friends! No Bahamian history lesson today, rather, just the usual travelogue and commentary on our escapades of late! We spent one day being somewhat industrious for ourselves, doing a bit of routine maintenance: oil change for the 12 kW gense…

Work….

Here’s another view of Lady Jane, taken just after she was taken out of the water.All that marine growth is now gone, built up over the years since I came round from Fareham over four years ago.The people standing to the left there give some idea of th…

Trenton Ont. Canada

Still waiting for the Captain to return to Sweetpea with SweetPea, our daughter Ashley will be traveling with us for a month or so, she will be with us throughout Canada and into Michigan where she will fly out.  The boat (inside) h…

Tanna, Vanuatu – Yasur Volcano

From Anatom, it was an overnight trip to the next island, Tanna. The GRIB files lied and the trip was rolly with confused seas. Thankfully, it was a relatively short hop and we arrived in early afternoon. This was a unique landfall: although the nigh…

Still in Winter Harbor, NY

Day             13Depart         No travel todayArrive          Winter Harbor, NY  Distance          0 MilesCumulative   423 MilesDecided to stay another day.  Bob had a couple more maintenance projects to finish be…

Thursday, July 14, 2011

John and Norm went on an excursion to Daytona this morning. They went to 2 salvage boat stores and a West Marine. Neither one of them bought anything of consequence, but they had a good time. That allowed me to get my work done and then relax a little …

Chesapeake Cruise with Grandchildren

Photo: Crab Painting in Masthead Restaurant, Oxford, MD (Continued…)

Life’s2Short 2011-07-14 15:56:00

From Wheeler Lake to Nickajack Lake

On Sunday, July 3rd, we left our anchorage at Mile 276 near Joe Wheeler State Park about 8:15 a.m.  It was another hot, still day but we covered 57 miles to reach Ditto Landing Marina (and air conditioning!) ab…

Life’s2Short 2011-07-14 15:56:00

From Wheeler Lake to Nickajack Lake

On Sunday, July 3rd, we left our anchorage at Mile 276 near Joe Wheeler State Park about 8:15 a.m.  It was another hot, still day but we covered 57 miles to reach Ditto Landing Marina (and air conditioning!) ab…