Greetings to all –
Back in the saddle…Unlike our last posting to this blog, this entry has a good message!!
For quite a while I wasn’t certain that there would even be another posting to the ‘Grey Pearl’ Blog. The fire that destroyed our boa…
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‘Ocean Pearl’…As far as stories go…this is a good one!
TUESDAY JUNE 12TH, 2012
We left Winona early. There is getting to be less and less tow traffic at the locks as we head upriver, but the guys checked on the tow traffic website and there was one we wanted to beat to the first lock. No one had even had coffee yet! What a way to…
You Wonder How I Spend My Day?
I wake up at 9, up too late last night reading. DK is off to pick up the rental car – telling me that the mechanics are already in the engine room looking at our vibrating port shaft. They are?! They had let themselves in through the large hatch in …
The Middle Third
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
LATITUDE: 27-41.16N
LONGITUDE: 114-53.24W
We are in Turtle Bay, Bahia San Bartolome or Bahia Tortuga, having made 4 passages over 5 days from Bahia Santa Maria. This area is known as the windiest part of the outside passage and …
MONDAY JUNE 11TH 2012
The closer we get to home the harder it is blog. The landscape and river towns are all familiar now.This part of the Mississippi is so incredibly beautiful! It truly is a shame that the majority of Loopers never come up the Mississippi. Instead they tu…
SUNDAY JUNE 10TH, 2012
We had a long distance to travel and 3 locks to traverse today so got going before sunrise. It was worth getting up so early if for no other reason than seeing this sky.By 6:15 a.m. we were through the fist lock of the day. The remaining two locks went…
SATURDAY JUNE 9TH, 2012
Another day of chugging along upstream towards home. The river is still rising and is still around 7 feet above normal stage. The current is flowing at 2 mph, sometimes higher. Our normal cruising speed is about 9 mph, so with the current we only make …
Departing our anchorage at Culpepper
The early morning light was spectacular on the mountains this morning. (View Post…)
Early Morning Culpepper
The sunrise, over our shoulder on the boat, cast a beautiful purple color on the lagoon and western sky. (View Post…)
A Poem About Culpepper Lagoon
The Morning Mists of Culpepper Lagoon (Continued…)
