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September Song 2012-07-01 03:12:00

Now that’s a fly bridgeNot so big!A car carrier. (AKA roll off) These ships look so weird. If there is a a problem with a ship on the C and D Canal, these ships respond. 

September Song 2012-07-01 03:11:00

 The view of Atlantic City as we come in from the Atlantic.The channel going into our anchorage in Atlantic City. It’s a little unnerving, when you see a fisherman standing in knee deep water next to the channel, and the channel is not much wider …

Johnstone Strait

We had a great opportunity to travel down Johnstone Strait under very good conditions. Johnstone Strait stretches 54 miles along the northeast side of Vancouver Island. It is bordered by steep, high, and beautiful mountains. The Strait can be one…

Clayton and Antique Boat Museum

Wooden boats are definitely the thing up here. Besides big houses from the turn of the last century on “millionaires’ row” their passion was speed boats and racing. So, the Clayton Antique Boat Museum has a beautiful collection of these 100 year old wooden boats that were once speed boats. But, in addition, there are […]

Another Day in the Life

O.K. so now it is June 23 and after another really long and tiring stint in the air, we have arrived back at Hamilton Island. The General Store has complied all of the groceries that I ordered by email earlier in the week, so we pack our goodies aw…

Another Day in the Life

O.K. so now it is June 23 and after another really long and tiring stint in the air, we have arrived back at Hamilton Island. The General Store has complied all of the groceries that I ordered by email earlier in the week, so we pack our goodies aw…

Whitsunday Group and Hamilton Island

Wow, I can’t believe how far behind I am in recording all of the wonderful things we’ve been doing here in Australia. May 2 until now June 30, is almost too long ago for my air conditioned brain to recall events. Lucky for me, 5 weeks of that time …

Whitsunday Group and Hamilton Island

Wow, I can’t believe how far behind I am in recording all of the wonderful things we’ve been doing here in Australia. May 2 until now June 30, is almost too long ago for my air conditioned brain to recall events. Lucky for me, 5 weeks of that time …

Strait of Messina, Sicily

We continued our cruising around the Aeolian Islands and anchored off Vulcano with it’s stinking mud pools that attract both locals and tourists who “bathe” in it for it’s supposed health-giving properties.  Questionable I would say given …

Strait of Messina, Sicily

We continued our cruising around the Aeolian Islands and anchored off Vulcano with it’s stinking mud pools that attract both locals and tourists who “bathe” in it for it’s supposed health-giving properties.  Questionable I would say given …