Saturday, May 14, 2011

John and I have rented a car for the weekend. Yesterday we found a West Marine online that was nearby and when we got there, we were commenting that it looked like a new store. Once we were inside and speaking to the employees, we found out that it was…

May 13 – Key West, FL

Day 68 – VisitorsKey West City MarinaWe went to Fort Zachary Taylor State Park this morning.  They have hiking and bike trails but it was too warm for those to be enjoyable, so we spent our time at the beach. The water was crystal clear and you co…

20 Ounce Kitten vs. 135 pounds of Pit Bulls

I mentioned in my previous blog that we have a new kitten.  Our menagerie now consists of two pit bulls and three cats, plus three humans.  That’s a lot going on if we lived in a house, but we don’t.  We live on a boat.  Somehow it …

Headed to the AGLCA Spring Rendezvous in Norfolk, Virginia?

If you’re heading to the AGLCA Rendezvous in Norfolk, Virginia you may be in North Carolina right now, you lucky dogs! You could spend a lot of time cruising all the sounds, creeks, rivers and enjoying some charming old southern towns, this is one of our favorite stretches of cruising. If your heading north, Southport’s…

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Cocoa, FL – 5/13/11

Blogspot was down on Wednesday/Thursday due to maintenance issues so we were not able to post anything for Thursday but as it turns out, we decided to stay another day at Melbourne and accomplish more boat chores that are on my / Ricki’s list. Our stat…

Never Done

     It’s good to be home; when I say at home I mean the boat, after all it is our only home.  After returning to Long Cove Marina on April 25th, we had the boat hauled on Wednesday April 27th.  For the next week, Sharon a…

Alyana Castle

Back to Maine–the long way home…

We arrived at Wilmington Marine Center on the 21st of April and docked into our assigned slip, where Misty will spend the summer at our camp on Nicatous Lake. We spent the next twelve days in Wilmington. Steve went back to Charleston and picked up the …

Alligator River Marina, Columbia, NC aka Miss Wanda

The scenery as we cruised to Alligator River Marina was the most diverse scenery we have seen.  The Pungo River is wide with green trees and bush-type growth. We followed the Alligator River Pungo River Canal, which is a 21 mile canal connecting t…

We’re in Virginia!

After getting Tourist back in the water we made our way to Wrightsville Beach where we anchored for the night. Plenty of swing room all around and good holding. There was time enough to drop the dinghy in the water and head to shore. The dinghy dock wa…