Wow … another boat show day! We left the marina at 11:30 this morning and traveled up I-95 approximately 40 miles to West Palm Beach for their annual boat show. As we approached the downtown marina area, we started seeing boats, boats and more boat…
Been Busy
A lot has been going on since the last posting on the blog. I’ll try to cover most of what we’ve been up to if I can remember them all.When I last checked in Pam had deserted me to fly home and get an Oscar fix. Seems that she needed a more innocent fa…
The Pelican Squadron
We woke up this morning to very foggy conditions, but our spirits were quickly lifted when we spotted this flock of pelicans aka the Pelican Squadron. Pre-flight briefing. Test flight. Flight conditions a…
Mar. 24 – Pensacola, FL
Day 18 – Laundry and Blue WaterPalafox Pier & Yacht Harbour MarinaWe are here… in Florida and the water is an emerald green. Very pretty, I don’t think my pictures will actually show what the water looks like. We had a short day o…
Hello Everyone!
Hello everyone, Tom here. I suppose that because Bess went to all the trouble to setup a blog for our boat, Skinny Dippin’ then give me posting access, I might as well post something here and shine a light on what my contributions will be to this n…
New Bight, Cat Island
Wednesday, March 23, 2011, Day 178. In the morning, when we tried to run the freezer, it kept tripping the breaker. We found salt all over the cooling water pump. Later, we found that a fitting on a purge valve that we had Butch install last summer …
Bless Up!
Keith, Watusi and Ron before our tourThis morning Keith, Ron and I were all moving a bit slowly (a la “why is the rum gone?”) but thankfully, we’d arranged a tour of Nevis with Watusi, a, extremely tall Nevisian Rastafarian singer/taxi driver. He…
Marina Jack, Sarasota to Chadwick Cove Marina Englewood Beach.
The weather was fine this morning. Wind from the South West at about 10-15. We left Marina Jack at 9 AM and headed South along Sarasota Bay, then the Venice area there was quite a lot of boat traffic (all recreational) for a Thursday. In spite of …
KEY LARGO
This is a cut through the mangrove trees. I thought it looked cool.This morning Sue, John, and I met at the Dockmaster’s office to see about calling a cab to go to the grocery store. We called Mom’s Taxi Service and a guy about our age showed up to t…
Thursday, 3/24/11
Still at Bay Point Condos in Tampa, Florida. We’ve been very spoiled with excellent accommodations. Today, we had several more visitors and Rich, one of Ballou’s friends and long time boyhood friend of our friend, Bruce. Rich was very interesting to listen to as he took us for a tour of the immediate area which included the […]
