Despite the rain all day, today was a pleasure to be on the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW). We managed to get an early start at 0715 this morning at Hospital Point, Mile 0 on the ICW charts. As with last year, we took …
Three Hours Without Breaking Down. A New Record!
So far Drift Away has made four trips under her own power. The first was Westport to Stamford, a total time of two hours. The second was Stamford to Norwalk, which was one hour, and then Norwalk back to Stamford. The …
Cruising on the Champlain Canal: Locks 9 – 3
September 11 – 15, 2011For this section of locks, after leaving Lock 11, we ended up spending one night at Lock 9 and four nights at Lock 7. I'm going to divide the post into canal scenery for the lock series and then Lock 7 history and activit…
This looks good…
From Wikipedia:The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp, who moves from New York to work for a major newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Set in the late 1950s, the novel encompasses a tangled love story of jealousy, treach…
Message in a Bottle
Our next stop was Yanuca – home of the former and future Lovo. Before heading off to the Lau group, however, we contacted Jack (acting Chief) who happened to be in Suva at the time and gave him the approximate … Continue reading →
Annapolis Encounters
Sunrise on Spa CreekSaturday, September 24, 2011On the ChesapeakeSouth of AnnapolisCruising is about meeting people. Oh, sure, it’s about blue seas and vast oceans and calm passages and great fishing and new places, but ultimately, it all com…
Nananu i Ra back to Port Denarau
Our next day diving with Papoo off of Nananu i Ra is a change up. We head out into extreme current and claw our way along a rocky outcropping to a spot where sharks are known to feed. Just reef sharks, so we are not afraid of being the main course. The…
Fiji Highlights
Fiji has been everything and so much more than we had expected. The people stand out with their friendly welcoming attitude. They all holler "Bula!" and smile widely when they meet you. The landscape is beautiful, though no more so than any o…
Leaving Fiji for Vanuatu
So I guess you can tell that we're back on the boat, based on the flurry of blog entries, I finally have time to write. We had such a frantic month at home trying to fit all of our work in that all of my good intentions for uploading lots of pictur…
Nice pic!
A friend sent this to us… great photograph.Last Shuttle “ENDEAVOR” flight from KSC – 5-16-2011. A seriously nifty photo of the shuttle launch, from the best seat in the house!!! An F-15E Strike Eagle at 26,000 feet – the protect…
