It finally happened …. everyone (except Ricki) has had an experience with the “summer cold” in our looper group. Now she can join the group! Since Ricki was not feeling very good, Skip, Barb & I drove to Islamora, a trip of around 40 miles each…
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Hollywood Municipal Marina, Hollywood, Florida
The Good Year blimp went over the boat todayAnother warm sunny day. We are enjoying this weather. Wayne and I walked to a store about 3 miles away to get some nozzles for our hose (somehow our’s had broken and so had the one we had borrowed from …
Marathon, FL – 2/25/11 (day 28)
We went to the Dolphin Research Center with Skip and Barb today. This place was amazing. It operates as a non-profit and it appears that they have a lot of collage age folks working there. They not only accept damaged dolphins and sea lions but also tr…
Hollywood Municipal Marina, Hollywood, Florida
Theship loading boats for transport. NaMaka was near the front. Asmall part of the ceiling of the outdoor section of the Irish PubAt lunch at the Irish PubScott and Marlene on the water taxiOne of our water taxisWe had a great day today. We took the wa…
Marathon, FL – 2/24/11 (day 27)
Today we did a few things around the boat until early afternoon when we started getting ready for the “Looper Sunset Party” at Banana Bay Marina. What a great deal. Everyone brought an appetizer to share and with over 84 people, you can guess what that…
Hollywood Municipal Marina, Hollywood, Florida
We couldn’t figure out what this was in front of us, turned out to be a floating boat sales office under tow.Some of the homes we saw as we passed Miami, we kept expecting to see Horatio Caine investigting a murder in one of them. We saw all kinds o…
Marathon, FL – 2/22/11 & 2/23/11 (days 25 & 26)
Tuesday (2/22) was our day to do nothing. Ricki spent the day at the pool and since I had this stupid summer cold, just hung around the boat. We needed our rest because we had planned to go back to Key West on thursday with Skip & Barb. Neither of …
No Name Harbour, Key Biscayne, Florida
The crocodileA view of the harbour from the restaurant window.We are anchored in a beautiful little harbour just across from Miami. Left Gilbert’s at Key Largo just after 8 this morning. We were getting ready to leave when someone spotted a crocodile s…
Gilberts Family Paradise Resort, Key Largo, Florida
Relaxing day today. I did laundry while Wayne did his engine checks. Joey and Rhonda with Rho-Jo came in for fuel on their way past, so had a little visit with them. Spent this afternoon in the pool, then going for a walk. Scott and Marlene, Nancy and …
Marathon, FL – 2/20/11 & 2/21/11 – (days 23 & 24)
On Sunday (2/20) I needed to put another coat of non-skid on the front deck and Ricki had spotted a quilting display in the newspaper that was about 30 miles away, so we each did our own thing. I encouraged her to go since I knew she would be gone mo…
