December 11 – January 24

It's been a while since my last

December 11 – January 24It’s been a while since my last update, so first, we’re still alive and cruising!The last posting ended at Palafax Marina in Pensacola. From there, we spent a night at Panama City Marina, and then went to Port St. Joe, a nice …

Lady Royal 2011-01-23 19:34:00

December 11 – January 24It’s been a while since my last update, so first, we’re still alive and cruising!The last posting ended at Palafax Marina in Pensacola. From there, we spent a night at Panama City Marina, and then went to Port St. Joe, a nice …

Breaking Away

Manatees!

They are incredible! These gentle giants were wonderful today. Look at how close you can get to them. You can see this one’s face and eyes. I have many more photos below, after telling you about Steinhatchee and the trip here to Crystal River.As soon a…

Dea’s Visit

January 16 – 23, 2011Well, Mark and I are returning from taking Dea to the airport to go back to Minnesota. She picked a good week to be here (between cold fronts) and a great week to be away from MN (negative degrees and a little bit of snow every d…

Dea’s Visit

January 16 – 23, 2011Well, Mark and I are returning from taking Dea to the airport to go back to Minnesota. She picked a good week to be here (between cold fronts) and a great week to be away from MN (negative degrees and a little bit of snow every d…

Windhorse

Bosque del Apache Slide Show

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Windhorse

Bosque del Apache – A Special Experience

Since wings are a current topic in the marine world we thought this was a good segue to talk about Bosque del Apache.

Although we are swamped – still playing catch up with things related to the land – a combination of benign winter weather and the need to get out of the office gave us […]

Sunday, 1/23/11

Boca Chica, Key West Florida …We had a very interesting week as we took the bus in to town in between boat chores and Boca Chica life to view some more of Key West.  This week we visited the Key West Lighthouse which was built in 1847 to aid ships navigating dangerous reefs.  Even though […]

Twin Dolphin Marina, Bradenton, Florida

Just after I made the blog entry last night, a lady from a neighbouring boat came by with wonderful home-baked cookies, just to say welcome to the dock. She said she normally does this, but we arrived, then immediately left to go home, then came back a…

1/21/2011 through 1/23/011

1/21/20110 WARDERICK MOORING TO COMPASS CAY MARINAFRIDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 13 NMWith the sun showing his face above Hogs Cay, we began our day. We left our cozy mooring at Warderick Cay and headed the 13 NM to the safety of Compass Cay’s mar…