Entering the Iron Gate locks.These are the second last and the biggest locks in the Danube. We entered with two commercial boats (both double wide) Once in the lock the gate, which came up from the bottom, is closed. …
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The "Iron Gate"
Approaching the “Iron Gate” we came through a very picturesque section of the Danube.Narrow passages and steep cliffs.The almost strait walls obviously continued to go straight down as the depth finder showed over 200 feet of water under the boat at ti…
Westport, NY to Waterford, NY: 08/16/11 – 08/19/11
After many miles and over 50 locks, we’ve closed the “Little Triangle” and are back in Waterford, NY. What a great cruise it has been. While we sat in Westport watching the rain fall and fall and fall, we decided it would be prudent to get through the Champlain Canal pretty quickly. With the local [Read More…]
Docked in Donji Milanovac
Once we reached Donji Milanovac we are lucky and can tie up to the barge that serves as the town dock. often the cruise boats use this and we would not be able to tie up here but we were informed that there would be no cruise boats stopping today.Once …
On our way to Doji Milanovac
We lifted anchor in “Veliko Gradište” and wanted to get to “Donji Milanovac”. The terrain we passed through is again very different from the previous day. Very rugged and narrow passages at times. When the lock and dam were build down river it filled …
All About Choices
Chesapeake Bay is all about choices: which river to follow, which creek off that river, which cove off that creek. We chose to stay on the Chester River after our daughter and spouse departed from Chestertown, and chose to try a new creek- Langford Cr…
M/V Lowe Key
This is M/V Lowe Key of Cambridge, MD. She is a 1986 Kadey Krogen, hull #93. Shown here anchored on Dun Cove, Harris Creek on the Choptank River.
Serbia and Romania
About 5 hours after we left Belgrade we came to where Romania’s boarder was on our port side. Serbia was still on our starboard side and will be for one more day. The picture above is one of the first Romanian villages and is close to Banatska …
Oops
Puffin had been docked at a marina in Chestertown on Maryland’s Eastern shore while Sara and Wayne visited us for several days. Yesterday they departed for points north and we also prepared to depart for an anchorage down the Chester River. (Cont…
I Want One
We left the Potomac River on Monday and were cruising north on the Chesapeake Bay, almost due east of Solomons, MD when I turned for unknown reasons in time to see these two boats approaching us from the stern. …
