Did you know that out of the twenty+ types of paranhas, only five are carnivores? The rest are vegetarians!The ones that are carnivores are scavengers mostly. They are not known to kill people. We went to an aquarium in New Zealand. They ga…
Saturday Nov 6
Karen & I took the dinghy for a ride up to the north end of the island. I was showing her around. I don’t take the dinghy very often. This was one of my longer trips and of course when we were at the farrrr north end an alarm decided to go off. We were…
SATURDAY, NOV 6
Living “on the hard” isn’t easy. We spent 3 days living on the boat while it was “up on blocks”. Our boarding ladder got substantially longer. After the mechanics pulled the prop, they checked shaft runout and decided it was sli…
October 31-November 6, 2010 Mobile, Alabama 30.5676,-088.0904
October 31. We got up bright and early this morning to leave Demolopis Marina at daybreak. But, it was foggy (again). With that in mind, we called the Demopolis lockmaster and he said to come ahead. We were very wary, there were areas where we could not see at all and depended on the radar […]
Demopolis to Nowhere Alabama (Bashi Creek)
(Sat, Nov. 6 – Dist: 70.6 mi; Avg Speed: 9.5 mph; TTT: 8:20 hrs; Locks: 1)
Demopolis Lock and Dam the second last lock on the system. Hooray. Actually it has not been that difficult or we are just getting good. The only other loc…
Fall is the saddest season
Everything has to be tucked away for the winter! *sigh*I’ve never shrunk wrapped a boat before. Dunno if this is going to work or now but it’s done.Not much happening in the boat shed. Pretty much done with it till spring. I did tuck the Camaro in ther…
Day29 Wrightsville Beach NC to Myrtle Beach SC
Yup! 63degree yesterday was cold 53degrees today was freezing, hey we are going SOUTH!!! Now in MB SC yaaah!!! I love it when the sun comes out when we pull into a slip. We shall be here for 4-6 weeks probaly 4 it will be nice to be home for awhile. Ti…
Life’s2Short 2010-11-06 11:07:00
Blackbeard Island, GA to Jacksonville, FLOn Friday afternoon, October 29th, we met Steve & Lisa (our friends from Tampa) in Darien, GA and brought them back to “Life’s2Short” at Bob & Stephanie’s dock. The whole gang got together that e…
Home stretch
34 58 S 175 04 E 7 am Sunday Nov 7 After a partially bumpy night, the seas have once again settled down for our last 12 hours to Auckland. We are running down the east coast of New Zealand about 40 nm off shore….
Our Friend Christien/Carolina Beach, NC
A couple of days with our friend, nice area, lots of boats. He calls this place “Redneck Rivera” pics of his back yard, he is on a golf course, and that pond has small turtles and alligators in it. We did not see any large ones, but we did s…
