14-15 Nov

14 Nov, 0830 hrs, depart Two Way Fish camp Marina, beautifulsunny day, lots of boats travelling south.One “faux pas” in our passage today, turned left and not righttraversing through a sound put us in the Atlantic, but only for a very brief period, we …

Dedicated to "Pete"-our most loyal blog reader!!!!!

Good morning everyone.  Again, we’ve been remis at keeping up the blog.  We’ve been very busy “movin South” to warmer weather and continuing our “connect and reconnect” theme.   Unlike previous years, we’re one month ahead and …

Day38 been in Myrtle Beach for 10 days

We got in on a Saturday and we were joined by Esperanza on Sunday docktails on SweetPea it was coooold that night so they moved on Monday and are now in Florida. We wish them well and though we won’t catch up to them again we will continue to follow t…

Rick, Deb and Izzy Aboard M/V Broulee and other Wild Adventures 2010-11-15 09:08:00

OCTOBER – GLAD THAT’ S BEHIND US. Up here in the north country it’s always a race against the weather. You never know when the big “deep freeze” is coming so you need to be prepared. Minnesotans are all about being prepared – except maybe that Hallowee…

Port Lavaca to Galveston – Sometimes, you just have to go "commando."

Port Lavaca to Galveston

This is the collection of shells combed from the south shore of Matagorda Island
The trip from Matagorda Island to Port Lavaca was uneventful, if you consider being passed in the Matagorda Ship Channel by a “pa…

Beckway no Way

Our little fleet in BequiaBequia (pronounced Beck’way) : No way!November 8, 201013:00.10 N / 61:14.63 W(I took the liberty to change the names of the cruisers involved to protect their identity)0330 on board “Big Blue” Mindy – “Mork, what i…

Side Trip to Taiwan

Off to Taiwan for a few weeks. Proud daddy Jon with our precious Anelize, 9 months here!

Just Believe Nordhavn

La Paz

We had a rough trip to La Paz last night, 3-4 foot waves with a short period which pitched us up and down for several hours. Julie was on the salon couch with the sea dogs (?)  trying to sleep. Colin also discovered that the charts for …

November 12, 2010 Venice, FL

Love the FL Birds

Another Kilwins Ice Cream Shop

Entering Big Pass in Sarasota between Siesta Key and Lido Key

We enjoyed a morning bike ride on Captiva before readying Island Hopper for the 50 mile run to Venice. Our destination was the Venic…

Sunday, Nov 14 We’re in Florida!!

Headed into our anchorage for the night.  Beautiful sand beaches.  We are between Pensacola and Ft. Walton Beach.

 Just over the sand dunes is the Gulf.  Notice the palm trees and the large powered kite in the background.

Sunset…