SATURDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 0 NMSchool on Saturday? Yep, poor Danny had class today. There is a lot of information to be covered and learned during these two short weeks.I grabbed my cute bicycle and headed north the 4 miles to a shopping area …
Filming in the San Blas Islands
Toward the end of February our friends, Sheryl and Paul Shard, the film makers of the well known television series “Distant Shores” arrived for a visit onboard Diesel Duck here in the San Blas Islands. We were looking forward to seeing them again….
Day 148 and counting………. Fort Pierce
148 Days or 21 weeks WOW as long as that is, it is beginning to feel like we have been in Fort Pierce that long. Well, maybe not I can certainly think of worse places to be. Today, though still very windy, it would have been doable(?) …
Groovin’ in the Grove – Day 151 to 156 – Miami Coconut Grove
Sunny and in the 80’s every day and 70’s in the evening — the weather has been just luscious. We have been delinquent boaters (although quite active with the dingy), living this lazy, land based, life style. One e…
North Palm Beach Marina, North Palm Beach, Florida
Returned the rental car this morning, the cadillac was really nice, wouldn’t have minded keeping it a little longer. Spent the rest of the morning making plans for the next few weeks. We will go up to the St. Lucie River and stay at a marina there on M…
Ft. Myers
January 17th to February 20thThe visit here has been a good one. Carole completed her art classes. I did a bunch of maintenance including a repair on the dinghy. We rented a car for the month so we had transportation most of the time – we turned the …
Hello Key Largo!
What bittersweet feelings the captain & crew had as we departed NAS Key West Boca Chica Marina. After 3 weeks of enjoying Key West by dinghy, by car & by bar and delighting in the camaraderie of the military community, we had to begin our trek north. …
Grand Bahama Island
(March 1 – 6)
Life is good here. The town of West End is only about 1.5 miles from the marina and is quite an eye opener. Discarded conch shells line the water front through out town; thousands of shells just dumped on the edge of the road …
SW Florida Cruise ’11 update 3/6/11
Local Cruising Arrived at the boat on 2/25/11 to do some chores and local cruising. We got the Weaver Leaver installed on the dinghy and noted needed parts to order. Then it was to go down to Boca Grand for a couple of nights, Cayo Costa for a couple of nights, then to an anchorage behind […]
Back to the Island!
Here we are, back to the island yet again! After a hectic whirlwind of two weeks stateside, from Florida to Colorado to Wisconsin and back to Florida once again, we are now back aboard Equinox. Happily, all our doctors appointments, correspondence obli…
