This is a picture I got off a friends Face Book page. This lightning strike is on the last ore dock in my home town, Ashland, WI, on Lake Superior. This is the last of many ore docks that I knew growing up. Sadly, …
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
What a day! It began at 4:45. We were up and dressed and waiting for the sun to come up enough to see the buoys. Lightning made such a gorgeous light show for us, but made us unsure whether we should stay or leave. One…
Solomons
9/3/12 Monday (Labor Day) A little rain last night but not anywhere close to what the forecast led us to believe. Seems that every time I look at it it changes. Go figure!Congratulations to Marc & Michelle on Marc’s Ark who …
Summer and time for the list
When we were last in Marsh Harbor earlier in the spring, we attended the Annual Outer Reef Owners’ Rendezvous. While there we heard a great presentation from Matt Holloway the VP for Operations of Deltaville Boat Yard . They had just become an authori…
Does Cruising Make You Young?
Yesterday’s blog post was about our marina’s Labor Day party and how some of the party goers went a bit overboard. Men were a hootin’ and a hollerin’ while women used a nearby flag pole as a dance pole, spinning and twirling around it. The …
Sept. 4 – Saugerties, NY
Heading SouthEsopus CreekAs hard as it was to leave the wonderful little town of Waterford and our friends on Gallivant, we started our trek south today. It’s amazing the difference one day can make in the weather. Yesterday was Labor Da…
Beardstown IL
(Tuesday Sept 4 – Dist: 79.8 mi; Avg Speed: 9.7 mph;
Locks: 1; LWT: 0 mins; TTT: 8:25 hrs)
There is Headquarters and Q’s End tied up to the barges for the night. With the lower water levels we hav…
September 3 and 4, 2012: Bay Hill Marina to Aqua Yacht Harbor, AL
Monday the 3rd: It has been a while since I last posted on our blog. Our plans to go to Chattanooga have been postponed and or cancelled again. We got to our friends at Bay Hill Marina in Athens, AL, and due to the hurricane “Isaac” we&nb…
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
We had a short cruising day today. We are tied to the lock wall at the Kaskaskia Lock. When we asked Fern at Hoppies where would be good places to stay the rest of the way down the Mississippi River, she told us to stay here tonight and the…
Year 2 Day 159
Today is Tuesday, September 5th and after a very long day (almost 10 hours) we stopped alongside a barge near the town of Beardstown, Illinois. There is no marina here and no town dock but for $1.00 per foot, they'll let you park overnight tied u…
