Friends Shirley and Wayne discovered a Florida Humanities Council program on the Everglades and suggested we join them for the 4-day affair- What an adventure!! Officially called a “Gathering…”, the program is one of several through which the FHC engages both scholars and local cultural/civic leaders to provide participants with an in-depth exploration of the […]
The Everglades: Adventure of a Lifetime
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-03-18 17:11:00
We’re at Marco Island after a nice cruise in the gulf yesterday.Today, we went and got our car from Sarasota and I fished off the aft deck when the tide was running to carry my bait away behind the boat in the tidal current. I caught this one nice she…
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-03-16 15:16:00
We visited the Edison-Ford Complex today in Fort Myers, just a nice walk from the marina here and a nice sunny day. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford both had winter estates here in Ft. Myers. Ford actually worked for Edison before he invented his first …
Fueling
This weekend we completely filled our fuel tanks for the first time. We had called
around to get pricing for taking on 1,700 gallons:
Shilshole: $3.02
Poulsbo: $2.88 (up from previous …
March 15, 2010
No need to beware the Ides of March, at least from our perspective. The day is gorgeous–warm, sunny and blue-skied! Does it get better than this? And it’s been 2 weeks since we returned from IL and settled in to the pace of life a…
03-15-10 Sneads Ferry, NC – Thanks
[Rick] With us safely back in Sneads Ferry, the time has come to end our great loop adventure. However, we recognize that we would not have had such a great time without some help from many people. Along the way, we met many wonderful people and we hav…
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-03-15 17:09:00
We cruised South to Fort, Myers today. We plan to stay an extra day here to go see the Edison-Ford Complex… more about that tomorrow. Our marina is right to the left of these huge downtown condos before the bridge.We passed a beautiful bald eagle s…
03-14-10 Crossing Our Wake!
Betsy speaks: We attended our church in Topsail Beach this morning, and were surprised to be greeted at the door by our former (retired) pastor from Sneads Ferry Presbyterian. He lives nearby and knew we would be at Topsail’s Emma Anderson Chapel tod…
Date Weekend
It started with a fantastic view from our room in Lake Chelan. It included wildlife as we went driving on some backroads (pheasant, deer, quail, etc).It had some top open warm weather.And it ended with us coming home and filling the new hot tub. It’s h…
March 2010 – Spring Break Lake Charles Trip
Clear Lake, TX to Lake Charles, LAMarch 13th departure date / return by March 21stJosh, Barb & Daniel Wallach – M/V Last TradeJohn & Wendy Ellor – M/V KnotugalBarry & Barb Dupuy – S/V Morning StarErnie & Camille Rogers – S/V Mor…
