I know he’s hard to see, but I’m just glad I didn’t see him up close and personal, like him having a taste of my legs. Yesterday morning, in our isolated anchorage in South Carolina, I decided to clean Breaking Away’s hull and scrape off the barnacles …
Traveling on the ICW North
After anchoring out in Belhaven we went to a marina not to far. Dowry Creek is a very quaint marina in an incredible setting on the ICW. The showers at the marina were great, we were able to catch up on our laundry and meet some fellow boaters. When we are on the hook we […]
Wednesday, 4/27/11
Ship John Shoal Light DE Bay Delaware River calm, sun peeking out Good-bye C&D Canal N 38’57.150′/W 074′ 54.417′ Left Chesapeake City, MD at 6:45 A.M. We were planning on staying until Friday, but the weather reports indicated bad weather coming in late tonight and tomorrow. The water was flat, treetops were not blowing and […]
Mary’s House near Ephesus
It’s 1:30pm and Randal and I are relaxing back in our room, drying out from our morning walk in the rain, I decided to leave my umbrella in the room and Randal doesn’t have one so our rain jackets, pants and backpack got fairly wet.&…
Barefoot Landing Marina, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Wayne changed oil today, big job done. We don’t think we will need to do it again before we reach home. The very nice man from the marina here drove Gloria and I to Wal Mart, where we managed to do a lot of shopping in a very short period of time. Seem…
April 26 and 27, 2011, Tuesday and Wednesday
Tuesday, Alligator Creek Marina, NC to Elizabeth City, NC: Today was decision time for us. We had to decide if we were going to do Route 1-Virginia Cut or Route 2-Dismal Swamp. We have been tossing it back and forth for over a week no…
4/26/2011 NEW BERN TO DOWRY CREEK MARINA JUST NORTH OF BELHAVEN
TUESDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 59 NM DOCKED AT: DOWRY CREEK MARINA ICW MILE MARKER: 132SUNRISE: 6:22 SUNSET: 7:49HIGH: 77 LOW: 68TODAY’S BRIDGES: 11. CUNNING…
Canvas photos
thanks Ken n’ Cheryl for the prod. I have more photos on my camera to post, if I can find the camera! These are from my phone.Keith made great “booties” for our windshield wipersin this photo the forward rail is uncovered as Keith was still…
March 23, 24, 25 and 26 We crossed Mobile Bay and stopped at Dog River Marina
Mobile bay was unbelievably rough. One can see from a map that it is a huge bay and the wind was blowing from the south at over 30 knots, gusting over 40. When we turned west into the channel going to Dog River, it rolled the boat unmercile…
March 21 & 23 Docked at Holiday Harbor Marina, Pensacola
We stopped at Holiday Harbor to visit with our friends, Larry and Theresa Valentine, who live on a 42′ boat similar to ours. We hope that they will come up our way this summer to visit us at our marina and home.
