Although we thoroughly enjoyed the stay at the Grand Bahama Yacht Club at Port Lucaya, it was just too 'American' for our tastes. It's the home of many hotels, condos, townhomes, marinas and the Port Lucaya Marketplace – a bar, restaurant,…
Winter Dream’in – Part 2
I’ve been fussing further with the track data I extracted from the navigation computer and have uploaded all our anchorages up to both the Microsoft and Google mapping sites. These can be opened up as a separate browser windows and don’t requ…
week 10 home for Christmas
This is a pretty park on the waterfront in Beaufort SC You can see the marina in the background Yes those are poinsettias planted with the pansiesUpdate…..for the last 2 weeks the short of itThe weather cold and wind held us up for a week so in the …
Sojourner’s Sea Stories 2010-12-22 06:55:40
Season’s Greetings We hope this finds you and yours well and enjoying the very best of this most special season! As suggested above, ours includes snow this year as we returned to Lexington Kentucky just before Thanksgiving to begin the adventure of re-establishing a land base. Sojourner didn’t make the trip… she’s in St. Augustine, preparing […]
Solstice
Last night, at 23:38, was the exact time of the winter solstice for us folks in the northern hemisphere. Summer solstice for you lucky people down there in the southern part.It says so in the Astronomy picture of the day website, so it must be true.It …
Pumpkin Key
After provisioning and pumping out in the morning, we set sail around noon for the northern end of Key Largo. On the way, we sailed past Turkey Point, a nuclear power plant that Ken worked on in 1968. We crossed through two channels through shoals–th…
Planning our next adventure
Well we are starting to get the fever again for some cruising and are planning our tri to complete the loop that we didn’t in 2008. We are going to cruise from Panama City , Fl to the Texas Coast the first of April 2011. The planning is always one of m…
Planning our next adventure
Well we are starting to get the fever again for some cruising and are planning our tri to complete the loop that we didn’t in 2008. We are going to cruise from Panama City , Fl to the Texas Coast the first of April 2011. The planning is always one of m…
Year in Review
As the year winds down and we plan our trip to Sausalito for New Year’s weekend (on Pineapple Girl, of course), I have been reflecting on 2010. What a year it has been…Most of the first half of the year was consumed with getting Tiki J ready for…
Dream Catcher’s Great Loop 2010-12-21 13:50:00
Day 107 Crow’s Nest Marina, Venice, FL MM 58 Friday, December 10, 2010 Jackson’s American GrilleUsing the courtesy bicycles in downtown VeniceTiki barWith Mary and ClydeWe borrowed the marina courtesy bicycles and rode a couple of miles to downt…
