Makogai to Savusavu

Well I guess we have to work sometimes on the boat, so on the morning of our next day at Makogai Glen and I dive the underside of the boat to clean things up a bit and replace zincs (so the salt water doesn't eat our propellers and such). In the af…

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Wine Rack. Coke Display (with some missing)It’s T minus 11 and counting. Today was steamy hot! We had a very brief shower that didn’t even get the sidewalk wet. We have the car here and we didn’t even go anywhere today. What’s up with that? John and N…

Lake Superior 2011

LAKE SUPERIOR: The Indian name for Lake Superior is Kitchi gami. Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes by both surface area and volume. By surface area, it is the largest freshwater lake in the world. Lake Superior contains more water than all the other Great Lakes combined. It contains 10% of all […]

Buon Giorno Italia!! Menton to Genoa

9th July 2011
Departing from Menton the seas were not as calm as before, in fact, the wind rose to Force 5/6; with an uncomfortable short period swell.  We cruised to our intended destination at San Remo, but did not like the conditions for anchor…

Buon Giorno Italia!! Menton to Genoa

9th July 2011
Departing from Menton the seas were not as calm as before, in fact, the wind rose to Force 5/6; with an uncomfortable short period swell.  We cruised to our intended destination at San Remo, but did not like the conditions for anchor…

Sizzlin’ Hot Summer

        Late afternoon thunderstorm at Breton Bay.       Unofficially, the start of summer is Memorial Day, and ever since that time we have been tortured with high temps and humidity.  B…

Iron Lady’s Travels – 2011

A few of you have been asking about just where Tonga, Fiji and Vanuatu and Iron Lady are on the map. Well courtesy of Google Earth, here it is. Off to the left side of the map is Australia. At … Continue reading →

Austria

 It is interesting how different each country is.We are now in Austria  and the Danube wanders through the Austrian alps.Very picturesque. A typical Austrian house on the banks of the Danube.

sights of Passau

 The big cathedral with the largest pipe organ in the world!!!!!  Just some sights of Passau. Only Michal Nelson will understand why I took this picture!!!!1 Why did this remind me of you Mike?????And this reminded me of our grandson Bo!…

Helping hand from "BIG BROTHER"

 Just after the police told us to move and we went on our way we met the “VIKING LEGEND”After Joanne told me she did not feel like going back on the dingy I thought I would try to contact the captain of this cruise boat and ask him for a favor. He…