Good, Bad, and Ugly

The Good!
    The big transport ship is supposed to arrive some time this week and then a few days later the 15 boats will start being loaded.    After waiting around for so long it will be rush, rush, rush!  We have …

Westward Ho

4/1-4/3 – The forecast was for improving weather on Friday, but not until afternoon. Unfortunately, by afternoon, the tide was low and we were afraid we couldn’t make it out of Black Sound. The consensus was to wait until Saturday morning and leave…

Westward Ho

4/1-4/3 – The forecast was for improving weather on Friday, but not until afternoon. Unfortunately, by afternoon, the tide was low and we were afraid we couldn’t make it out of Black Sound. The consensus was to wait until Saturday morning and leave…

Morgan City

So much for the weather being in our favor. A front is coming in this afternoon and the winds have been howling. We hope to leave in the morning. We had planned to finally get to Rita Mae’s for dinner when the most interesting thing just happened. …

Heading For the Keys

Heading South on the IntracoastalMarch 21st!! – Finally!! 0800 hrs and the Captain had our lines let loose and down the New River we ventured. Where too? After careful consideration about the Okeechobee and our time constraints ( yes we have a …

Ready, set….not yet!

We are ready, but the weather isn’t. We were going to cross over to the Islands this last Saturday, but the weather forecasts were all over the place, so we decided to wait. Hind site is 20/20 and we probably could have gone. Now we are looking at leav…

September Song 2011-04-04 09:27:00

 Rick, serving pool side drinks.  Enjoying the pool on a hot day. I don’t think they like me taking their picture under water.

September Song 2011-04-04 09:26:00

Sunset shots at the Keys Fisheries. Oh, also three dozen stone crab claws and a couple dozen oysters. Love this place!Caught eating rum cake with rum sauce. Those of you who know me know how I love dessert. Late night fun at Dockside. I think they like…

September Song 2011-04-04 09:25:00

A visitor to our slipPutting a little more whitewash on the piling for us.These two laughing gulls have been smooshing all week on the piling by our boat. For god sakes you two, Take it to the nest!Dave, Barb, Stephen, and Pam came by September Song to…

lady jane

Fire

There is always something interesting going on around me.Here you see a huge fire in the yard near me.As best as I can tell, without going there for a visit, I believe the yard is some kind of topsoil recycling place.They seem to feed soil through a la…