Too Much Civilization After The Out Islands?
June 16, 2012
After two nights at Warderick Wells, we slipped our mooring and traveled north 12 miles to explore uninhabited Shroud Cay. Small creeks traverse the mangroves from the western Exuma Bank side t…
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Nassau & Atlantis Resort And Marina
Tennessee River to Ohio River (May 15 to June 14)
Our first stop on the Tennessee was an anchorage off Pickwick Lake called Cooper’s Hollow. We’d been by there on our last trips but could never find room. It’s a small inlet, protected by a sand bar with a waterfall on the rock wa…
The Rest of the Summer Trip: June 10-15
(Continued…)
‘Ocean Pearl’…As far as stories go…this is a good one!
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…
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 …
We Chose the Erie Canal
If it’s June and if you’re on the Great Loop you’re probably in upstate New York heading for the Erie or Lake Champlain. Lake Champlain is still on our bucket list, however Lisa and or I have been through the Erie Canal three separate times and have enjoyed it immensely. Not only will you be surrounded…
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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…
