2/26/2010 Friday
Arrival in Barra de Navidad
After an all nighter from Puerto Vallarta, we were a little tired. But, after tending to boat issues, we noticed that there were eight Nordhavns of various sizes in the marina. We in…
Captain’s Log updtate from 2/26 to 3/20
Captain’s Log updtate from 2/26 to 3/20
2/26/2010 Friday
Arrival in Barra de Navidad
After an all nighter from Puerto Vallarta, we were a little tired. But, after tending to boat issues, we noticed that there were eight Nordhavns of various sizes in the marina. We in…
St. Patrick’s Day – Key West Style
The craziness continues down here in Cayo Hueso or the Island of Bones as Key West is known – the island has numerous aliases just like most of us who live down here (guess we’re all hiding from something – in our case it must be reality!!) Our friend…
The Everglades: Adventure of a Lifetime
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 […]
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…
