The Keys Fisheries. Some of the best seafood in the Keys and the place we spent Sunday night with Ron, Rena, Jay, Nancy, Rick, and Therese. What a blast we had, and way too much to eat and drink. Oh well, I don’t get to see my brother and sister-in-law…
Great Mercury Island & Captain Cook
We left Great Barrier Island and made the mistake of going through the Coville Channel to Great Mercury Island with the tide opposing about 25 knots of wind. This thin bit of sea between Great Barrier and the Coromandel peninsula has swift currents an…
Warderick Wells
We left Shroud Cay Tuesday morning bound for Warderick Wells. We picked up a mooring in the Emerald Rock mooring field and enjoyed calm conditions. Warderick Wells is the Exuma Land & Sea Park headquarters, and has internet, our first in nearly two…
March 3, 2011 Makai is almost ready for the season
With the delamination problem fixed, a couple of cracks in the gel coat repaired and a fresh coat of Marine Polish, the Makai is almost ready for the season. Next is to haul out for bottom painting and have another coat of Propspeed applied.
Exumas’ elusive Bonefish
Aren’t so elusive, as a matter of fact at Compass Cay they’re like downright friendly — if you happen to have something they like to eat.Our friend Will sent us these pics, he has a knack for this kind of thing. Mel calls him a fish whisperer.L…
3/7/2011 NEW RIVER, FORT LAUDERDALE AND THE MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE
MONDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 0 NMAfter finishing up my morning chores I was off to the Museum of Discovery and Science. The huge Gravity Clock at the entrance was fascinating to watch. Unfortunately Monday seemed to be a good time for school field…
Gators finally! And WOW, Jacksonville.
Look at that fellow! Rick and I meandered up a creek that flows into the St Johns River near Palatka (for those of you following us with a map), and we’ve seen three alligators. This was the only one who remained out of the water for us to photo. Sever…
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
We had a beautiful day to travel on the water; mid 80’s and sunny. We went through our first lock today since November 9, 2010, the Coffeeville Lock in Alabama. This makes a total of 47 lock so far on our trip. This lock was op…
Spitfire
Saturday brought more aircraft related diversions, in the form of a Spitfire this time.This flight was in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the first Spitfire flight. Southampton was where it all originally started.There were a good crown of peopl…
Boggy Key Anchorage – 3/7/11
We pulled out of Burdine’s Marina at 8:30 a.m. in order to meet Skip & Barb on Hawk Channel in an hour at Key Colony. They were also leaving at the same time in order to go to a marina for a pump out then on to Hawk Channel. We traveled about 2 hou…
