Have you ever seen a soldier crab? I have! They are round and light blue, and about the size of a quarter. They swarm together in huge armies of hundreds of crabs. But when you come near, they all dig into the sand, turning like a corkscrew. When they …
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Crossing the Columbia River Bar
We left Seattle on Thursday evening and crossed the Columbia River Bar Saturday morning.
Conditions were rough, as they always seem to be, in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, but
otherwise we�…
Butterflies and Dragon Flies
Keppel Island was a good refresher course for us on how to rig our flopper stoppers. Lovely anchorage, but the residual swell from the past week of big weather just wraps around into every nook and cranny. We blast our way through the surf on o…
Butterflies and Dragon Flies
Keppel Island was a good refresher course for us on how to rig our flopper stoppers. Lovely anchorage, but the residual swell from the past week of big weather just wraps around into every nook and cranny. We blast our way through the surf on o…
Spring Migration
The Spring migration is on in Baja. It's time all the cruisers return from mainland Mexico to Baja and start moving north, enjoying the warmer Spring weather before putting their boats away for the summer. There are the annual cruiser festivals in…
BATTERIES DUE IN A FEW DAYS AND THEN WE’RE OFF
With this posting I’m having problems with spacings for paragraphs, photos and photo captions.On Wednesday morning we had a southerly gale here with winds up to about 50 knots. The normally flat-calm sea to the south of the marina raged with breaking 2…
R.I.P. Levon
Nordhavn Exumas Abacos Bahamas trawler Caribbean Pickwick Boat dogs
Levon Helm…
It saddened me so much when I read this news this morning… I love this guy. He was always just Levon … Man… that was good. He grew in the same little Mississippi Delta cotton fields that I did, and was one of my inspirations that I too coul…
First Overnighter of the Season
We are on day three of our travels. Our leisurely morning is spent fixing things, Glen sweating over a drawer that will not work on the sliders anymore and me trying to get our computer to talk to all of our navigation equipment. We had some wo…
First Overnighter of the Season
We are on day three of our travels. Our leisurely morning is spent fixing things, Glen sweating over a drawer that will not work on the sliders anymore and me trying to get our computer to talk to all of our navigation equipment. We had some wo…
