July 24, 2012Spirit departed Port Harvey at 0800 under overcast skies which soon cleared as we headed east in Johnstone Strait. The tide was ebbing strongly against us, so we hugged the back eddy on the Vancouver Island shore until the eddy faile…
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[KensBlog] Good times, and some not so good times
Greetings all!
Roberta and I are now in Bodrum, Turkey..
This shows our journey so far. We’re slowly working our way north, and have covered just over 300 miles of coastline.
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NOT Charlevoix, NOT Leyland but Northport
(Monday July 30 – Dist: 40.7 mi; Avg Speed: 11.6 mph;
Seas: 2-3 feet; TTT: 3:35 hrs)
It was a marginal travel day today but since we only wanted to go to Charlevoix a mere 17 miles away we decided t…
Crysler to Cornwall, ON.
We had a nice journey from Crysler to Cornwall, Ontario. 36 miles and two locks, Eisenhower and Snell about 4 miles apart with a drop of 42 feet each. There are 7 locks for us to traverse to Montreal. All operated by the St Lawrence Seaw…
July 29 – Perth, ON
The Prettiest Town in OntarioTay Canal Lock 34 WallToday we locked up one more lock to the highest point on the Rideau Canal. The Upper Rideau Lake, at 408’ above sea level, is the highest water body on the Rideau Canal system. From the Narrows…
Killarney on Georgian Bay
Muriel June with a group of Grand Banks from Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana Killarney, Ontario—not Ireland and above the 46th parallel Every morning we check all the weather indicators we have: Weatherbug, NOAA, Wunderground, IKITESURF.com etc. This morning even through we’d had only one lovely day in Tobermory, we decided to cruise across Georgian Bay […]
Not Just Kissin' The Dog
As of tomorrow; Tuesday, Al will be kissing KGH goodbye. We were told this afternoon he will be transferred to St. Mary’s sometime tomorrow morning. We are both ready for this to happen. With the summer vacation schedule Al did not get physiothera…
Portland
Portland is a great city to explore. It’s also where Stephanie lived for fourteen years, and lived in Maine for eighteen years. What a great tour guide she was! “That’s where I use to go, that’s where I worked, I hung out there, that’s where I lived fo…
September Song 2012-07-30 07:26:00
This is the house Stephanie built.This is a house Stephanie lived in.There are so many lobsters this year, that they are cheaper than lunch meat. Henri bought them for 2.99 a pound for the lobster roast they had for us. He said he felt like a robber.It…
September Song 2012-07-30 07:25:00
We went back to one of our favorite places we were at twelve years ago by car, The Lobster Shack, at Two Lights on Cape Elizabeth.Click on the video to see our view from the picnic table, while we enjoyed our lobster rolls, and our first piece (first o…
