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Friday, 3/18/11

We’re staying a 2nd night at Naples City Docks. Michelle defrosted the freezer and did the laundry and after breakfast, we lowered our bikes from the top of the salon roof to the half dock below which is quite a task since the dock doesn’t extend to the salon portion of the tug.  Augie in the […]

New Smyrna Beach Marina, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

As we approached, these birds were sitting in a line across the channel, looked like perhaps they were sitting on a sand bar. As we approached, they flew away, they must have all decided to rest/fish/sit in the same place.The new bridge at Titusville i…

Quest at Sea

Dania Beach, FL – 3/15/11 thru 3/17/11

Tuesday (3/15/11)This morning the day started with a very painful moment. When Ricki went to check on her “crabs” as she has done every morning since she acquired them, they were laying in the water belly up and dead! With heavy heart we were forced …

Cocoa Village Marina, Cocoa, Florida

 Nancy and Eddie’s new car A space capsule, hard to believe that it actually held two or three astronautsSpace Shuttle Endeavour on the launchpad being made ready for the April 19th launch We had to try the Space Dots ice cream, which is appar…

Thursday, 3/17/11

Naples, Florida N 26′ 08 450′/W 081′ 47. 483′ We departed Everglades City, FL this morning at 0900 hours.  This was an interesting dockage.  We were tied to a long dock right in front of the Rod and Gun Club which had a full restaurant view right across from our dock space.  We noticed the […]

Tuesday/Wednesday, 3/15 and 3/16

25. 19′ 763N/081. 08′ 234W Little Shark River, FL 3/15 and 25. 51′ 504N/081. 23′ 263W Everglades City, FL 3/16 Greetings!  We’re writing this update on Wednesday, 3/16 since we had no connection with the internet last night and we had no cell service either because we were anchored out in the middle of Little […]

Cocoa Village Marina, Cocoa Village, Florida

Another beautiful sunny day. Wayne did engine checks and some repairs this morning, while I did some laundry. We are starting to rate marinas, one important item on the scale being the laundry facilities. This marina is great, 4 washers and dryers, and…

Cocoa Village Marina, City of Cocoa, Florida

We left Loggerhead Marina and Eddie and Nancy this morning. We have thoroughly enjoyed travelling with and sharing this trip with them, and will very much miss them as we move on. Nancy and I have shared the cooking for so long that it will be qui…

Quest at Sea

Dania Beach Marina – 3/13/11 & 3/14/11

Our air card seems to be very slow here so I have decided to only post on the blog 2 or 3 times a week since it has taken over 20 minutes to load the pictures on this entry alone. Each place we stop on this adventure has advantages over the last one. T…

Loggerhead Vero Beach, Florida

Our last day at Vero Beach. Eddie took us this morning to get groceries; it will be our last chance to get them with a car for a while. Came back and did some odd jobs around the boat; Wayne finished filling his new dock box, we are quite excited about…