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…
Seabrook Marina to Point Cadet Marina Biloxi, Mississippi
I brought the rental car to Enterprise’s office at 7:30 they brought me back to the Marina and we were on the way by 8AM. It is cool, winds from the east about 10 K. We had one Railway bridge to go through to get to the Intracoastal it opened for …
Hiking Pigeon Pea Hill (aka the mountain!)
It’s so nice to be home! After unpacking and re-acclimating to the island time, (one hour earlier than EST) we got back into live-aboard mode. We had the boat detailed while we were gone, and Sun, our detailing guy, did a fabulous job. The water was be…
Slow days
View of Grand Case as we approached in the dinghyThe past couple of days have been slow days for us. We were waiting on the electronics guy to come fix the dinghy radio, but we found out he wasn’t coming until tomorrow. SO….we took the dinghy…
Shroud Cay
We finally left the anchorage at Norman’s Cay on Sunday morning and headed just five miles south to Shroud Cay under sunny skies and light winds. The front has passed and the winds are blown out. Wind directions are now from the prevailing SE, and ha…
