May 2 – Everglades City, FL

Day 57 – Lots of Shells No AlligatorsRod and Gun Club MarinaThis area is known as Ten Thousand Islands which are a chain of islands and mangrove islets off the coast of Southwest Florida. The 99-mile long Wilderness Waterway begins at Everglades City…

It’s time to move on ……

It’s hard to believe we arrived here in Auckland NZ 6 months ago.    We have had great adventures and met many wonderful people.  But, as always in our wandering cruising life, there comes a time to move on.   We have been…

Hope Town

Monday, May 2, 2011, Day 218. The wind is predicted to last for the next couple of days. Escapades crew decided that we needed to move. Hope Town harbor seems as though it had nice protection. A call on the VHF radio confirmed that there were moori…

Ephesus Ancient Site Part 1

  In the tropics you can do your laundry at sunrise and it will be dry before 10 am.  Here you do your laundry at sunrise and maybe it’s dry by 2 pm.  I did laundry on Sunday and today and both times shortly after it was hung up th…

Roche Harbor to Nanaimo

After a leisurely breakfast at the Lime Kiln Grill with Jim & Cheryl Matheson, we headed out in moderate rain for Nanaimo about 0900. We called Canadian Customs and got a clearance number over the phone, but about 30 minutes later a large black inf…

Wheelhouse

Back to the wheelhouse… we completed the first section of the passageway overhead, which is also the foundation for the settee in the wheelhouse. Since we have a 90 degree winding stairway from the wheelhouse to the lower decks, we thought it would b…

Exhaust system work

We are trying to stick to projects that will make the boat operational for our launch which will hopefully happen sometime this year. So in that spirit, I have been working on the exhaust system. By coincidence, we are working on installing a new exhau…

Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina

We spent the morning at  Baldhead Island  Marina; did the wash and went for a long walk on the beach. Lots of shells, jellyfish on the beach. Watched a couple of crab scuttling for their holes. As we left Baldhead Island, we were heading…

Some fun stuff

An extra email just for fun.
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Fast Food and Silly Shopping Stories

Linda Levy being Linda Levy
This picture was taken on Marmaris waterfront but seems an appropriate illustration for this story. . Marmaris Yacht Marina is about a 30 minute b…

Skyline of Edinburgh