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Staffa and Iona
The Isle of Staffa is composed of vertical, hexagonal basalt columns similar to those at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. The cliffs themselves are a sight, but an additional attraction is cathedral-like Fingal’s Cave. From an anchorage in the Sound of Iona, we ran the tender over to Staffa, then spent the afternoon exploring…
Sept. 15-17 The Captain’s Birthday
Allan H. Treman State Marine Park
“As I grew older I thought the best part of my life was over…then I was handed my first grandchild and realized the best part of my life had just begun.” -Author Unknown
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| We had a great weekend celebrating Stan’s birthday. It started Friday with a picture perfect weather day. We started the day with coffee on the flybridge, something we haven’t had time to do much of lately, but truly enjoy. Later we drove up the lake to the Thirty Owl Winery for lunch. They have a wonderful little bistro that over looks the vineyard and Cayuga Lake. Their menu is small, but the items are all made with locally grown ingredients and it was one of the best meals we’ve had in the area this season. |
Remembering Gladys Buzzell
Gladys passed away on Sunday, September 17, 2017, at Crystal Coast Hospice House in Newport, near her home in Swansboro, North Carolina. During her life, she fought cancer four times over 16 years and was an active advocate for cancer research. Throughout her life, Gladys pursued and excelled at many things. She was a private […]
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Annapolis
The Hurricane is over, Florida is busy rebuilding itself and quickly coming back to life, our home in Jupiter has returned to 100%, and now, we’re back to doing what it is we do. Currently, that’s exploring Annapolis.
Here, The weather’s perfect.
We’ve spent quite a bit of time in Annapolis and we always find it interesting. The Annapolitans are friendly folk. They seem to go out of their way to be kind to strangers. They love their city, boats, good food, and they don’t seem to mind sharing all those things. We’re grateful, we love all those things as well.
Everywhere you look is a photo that needs to be taken and I’ve taken quite a few.
The photo to the left is Back Creek. We were tied up at Port Annapolis before moving closer to town and Annapolis Yacht Basin. The Yacht Basin’s pricey but worth spending a few bucks for a couple of days in the middle of all things Annapolis
Speaking of Hurricanes, before I forget — this link is to Southeast Cruisers’ Net’s list of marinas that have been affected by Hurricane Irma. Pretty useful. http://cruisersnet.net/marina-conditions-and-updates/
A beautiful weekend with perfect weather brought out all kinds of vessels and their toys. The harbor was crazy busy.
So to better enjoy the day, we dropped the dink, loaded up the boys, and went out to join all those boaters doing the same.
Dinkabout Spa Creek
The end of another great day, the sun goes down.
This is truly a cool town, our kinda place. We always fantasize about picking up stakes and moving here to enjoy the city, it’s culture, and the convenient cruising lifestyle that living on The Chesapeake Bay allows. The weather is a disagreement, Mel likes the idea of seasons, I do too — if we could exclude winter.
We’ll stick around another day to watch some football and probably do another dingy ride; tomorrow we’re booked into St Micheals. Just a short ride over to the Eastern Shore, it’s an altogether different experience. There are old friends at St Michaels and it’ll be fun seeing them again, been a few years.
After a week of stress and worry brought about by Hurricane Irma, it’s nice and relaxing to kick back and absorb Annapolis and life aboard here.
Unfortunately, we’re remaining mindful to the other storms currently spinning out in the Atlantic. Right now there are 3 different disturbances that could become something to pay attention to.
As Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, once said.
“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…”
Adios,
Nordhavn 57-26 Istaboa
Annapolis
The Hurricane is over, Florida is busy rebuilding itself and quickly coming back to life, our home in Jupiter has returned to 100%, and now, we’re back to doing what it is we do. Currently, that’s walkabout Annapolis.
Here, The weather’s perfect.
We’ve spent quite a bit of time in Annapolis and we always find it interesting. The Annapolitans are friendly folk. They seem to go out of their way to be kind to strangers. They love their city, boats, good food, and they don’t seem to mind sharing all those things. We’re grateful, we love all those things as well.
Everywhere you look is a photo that needs to be taken and I’ve taken quite a few.
The photo to the left is Back Creek. We were tied up at Port Annapolis before moving closer to town and Annapolis Yacht Basin. The Yacht Basin’s pricey but worth spending a few bucks for a couple of days in the middle of all things Annapolis
Speaking of Hurricanes, before I forget — this link is to Southeast Cruisers’ Net’s list of marinas that have been affected by Hurricane Irma. Pretty useful. http://cruisersnet.net/marina-conditions-and-updates/
A beautiful weekend with perfect weather brought out all kinds of vessels and their toys. The harbor was crazy busy.
So to better enjoy the day, we dropped the dink, loaded up the boys, and went out to join all those boaters doing the same.
Dinkabout Spa Creek
The end of another good day, the sun goes down.
This is truly a cool town, our kinda place. We always daydream about picking up stakes and moving here to enjoy the city and the convenient cruising lifestyle that living on The Chesapeake Bay allows. The weather is a disagreement, Mel likes the idea of seasons, I do too — if we could exclude winter.
We’ll stick around another day to watch some football and probably do another dingy ride; tomorrow we’re booked into St Micheals. Just a short ride over to the Eastern Shore, it’s an altogether different experience. There are old friends at St Michaels and it’ll be fun seeing them again, been a few years.
After a week of stress and worry brought about by Hurricane Irma, it’s certainly relaxing to kick back and absorb Annapolis.
Unfortunately, we’re forced to remain mindful of the new storms currently spinning out in the Atlantic. Right now there are 3 different disturbances that could become something to pay attention to.
As Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, once said.
“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…”
Adios,
Nordhavn 57-26 Istaboa
2017-11 Monterrey to San Simeon or Morro Bay
Sunday, September 17, 2017: Continuing Southbound on the Central California Coastline7AM: We departed Monterrey Harbor a bit earlier today to make the best use of favorable marine weather. About 4:45 we found the harbor exit and rounded th…
2017-11 Monterrey to San Simeon or Morro Bay
Sunday, September 17, 2017: Continuing Southbound on the Central California Coastline
7AM: We departed Monterrey Harbor a bit earlier today to make the best use of favorable marine weather. About 4:45 we found the harbor exit and rounded …
Port McNeil
Sullivan Bay to Port McNeil: Saying goodby to Sullivan Bay, we took advantage of a good weather window to cross Queen Charlotte Strait. We were just entering the Strait when my heart about jumped out of my body. As I glanced to the starboard side, I was looking at a large humpback whale no more […]
2017-10 Half Moon Bay to Monterrey
Saturday, September 16, 2017: Half Moon Bay to Monterrey
This is one leg in a multi-leg cruise that eventually gets the boat to La Paz, Mexico. The CostaBaja.com Resort will be Wild Blue’s 2017-2018 winter home. During our journey, y…
