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Dock Bird and another Sunset

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Motor Home South Austalia Part 3

4 The trip today will see us cover quite a few miles, so we are up early and off. Within 1 hour we are pulled over for our first site of the day, the limestone cliffs of “ship wreck coast”.  Absolutely stunning! The next 10 km are spent stopping …

Motor Home South Australia Part 2

3 We navigate our way out of town and head off on the Great Ocean road. Lots of cute little sea side towns and gorgeous sweeping ocean views, shining sandy beaches and rugged cliffs. We stop to walk on the beach to see if there are shells for our coll…

Motor Home Adventures in South Australia Part 1

1 Our motor home adventure begins by flying from Gold Coast airport to Melbourne. Tiger Air is the carrier, I booked them because they were cheap. Then I had all kinds of second thought as some locals we have met were telling us horror stories about t…

Why they call it Sunset Bay

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Blue Angel Sky Show

Another fun thing we did was watch the Blue Angel Skyshow over San Francisco Bay on October 9th. Many boaters like to take their boats out to watch the planes perform directly overhead. We don’t like to take Kosmos out … Continue reading

Flying low to Lauderdale

Yesterday was interesting… Bob, one of our dock buddies, was taking this boat back to Ft Lauderdale and asked if I wanted to ride along.The Van Dutch is so totally different than Istaboa that I figured a run out in a fairly rough sea in such a boat w…

COST OF THE CRUISING LIFE IN THE EASTERN MED

During the last two years we’ve kept detailed records of our cruising costs. Our blog entries dated 16 April 2011 and 10 June 2011 gave quite some detail on this, including an intended cruising budget for 2011 of NZ$90k (approx. US$71k).As a general …

We enjoyed the most beautiful sunset tonight!

Back in La Paz… I need to get my camera out and take some pictures. We have been doing odd projects on the boat getting ready for our guests to arrive in a few days. We have been catching up with Fubar friends that are still hanging around here in La…

More snow … and freezing rain

Sunday's snow mostly was
gone by Monday, but we got another load later in the week. The weather system was difficult
to forecast. Although the snowfall was less than the re…