Click the map to see the yellow line showing the route taken by the Muriel June for the American Great Loop. At noon today, we passed under the Kemah bridge and entered our homeport at Lakewood Yacht Club where Ken and Pat Griffin greeted us on the dock with a bottle of champagne and lots […]
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Harborwalk, Galveston, Texas
You know you are back in Texas when you see a working “Pump Jack” Power shovel on a pedastal at the the new Galveston Railway Bridge. Operator needs to be sure he does not touch his forward and backward operating handles. Harborwalk, Galveston, TX A long and tense 85 miles got us to Galveston’s west […]
17 November 2012 – Wild Dunes/Isle of Palms/Mt. Pleasant/Charleston, SC
View from our slip in Wild Dunes
Although we retired from upstate Greenville, South Carolina, we kept Kindred Spirit III in Charleston from 2006, when we bought her until we retired and cast off lines in 2008, to be full-time cruisers. We …
Sabine Pass, Texas!
White snow geese in field with hunters nearby. Semi-submersible (left) and Jack-up (right) drilling rigs are among the many in the area parked awaiting deployment as soon as Federal Drilling Permits are issued. We are finally back in Texas and it feels great! Weather is perfect! No alligators were spotted this morning as we cruised […]
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Ah, L’Auberge du Lac and the transient docks—not a bad place to stay 100 miles from Galveston! A very large alligator and several bald eagles were spotted along the way. Alligator sunned himself along the channel bank and the bald eagle searched for fish competing with the many ospreys. Again, we passed many tows […]
Intercoastal City, Louisiana
A day of barges, barges and more barges along with workboats, shrimp boats, and oyster boats! The Intracoastal Waterway from Morgan City to Intercoastal City winds through the coastal marshes across the Atchafalaya River and Vermillion Bay. This is an area rich with oil and oysters. Winter birds have arrived: white pelicans, yellow crowned […]
12 October 2012 Home Again! Southport – Myrtle Beach – Wild Dunes/Isle of Palms/Mt.Pleasant/Charleston, SC
After leaving charming Southport, we rendezvoused in Myrtle Beach with Barbara and David and Roger and Kim. Without a doubt, you know we all “broke bread” together and had a sumptuous repast.
Myrtle Beach
Roger and Kim are RV expe…
Morgan City, Louisiana
Muriel June cruised through the cypress trees and the bayous. This sailboat went aground after his alternator went out then his battery so he could not jump start his engine. This nice Tow pulled him off but bent his shaft in doing so. The good samaritan tow brought him into the Morgan City Municipal dock. […]
Houma, Louisiana
Whee!! We made it through the two locks in and out of the Mississippi River in only 5 hours! This is Sunday so there were no curfews on the bridges and the barges went through the locks fairly smoothly—we were tied behind one, named Corky who was most polite to us as we locked […]
New Orleans for the Weekend
New Orleans and Houston bound Three years ago this weekend we came through New Orleans on our way east to start the Great Loop. We are now back and heading west to Houston. Three years ago, New Orleans was still recovering from Katrina. Today there is much vibrance: a new dike and water lift system, […]
