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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Gordon’s Pass into Gulf N26′ 27. 000′/W082′ 02. 000′ We departed Naples City Marina and went south for 20 minutes to Gordon’s pass to the Gulf.  Lots of boat traffic coming out of Gordon’s Pass to the Gulf; mostly fisherman.  At navigation aide 1, we set a course for 343 degrees magnetic to San Carlos […]

Friday, 3/18/11

We’re staying a 2nd night at Naples City Docks. Michelle defrosted the freezer and did the laundry and after breakfast, we lowered our bikes from the top of the salon roof to the half dock below which is quite a task since the dock doesn’t extend to the salon portion of the tug.  Augie in the […]

Thursday, 3/17/11

Naples, Florida N 26′ 08 450′/W 081′ 47. 483′ We departed Everglades City, FL this morning at 0900 hours.  This was an interesting dockage.  We were tied to a long dock right in front of the Rod and Gun Club which had a full restaurant view right across from our dock space.  We noticed the […]

Tuesday/Wednesday, 3/15 and 3/16

25. 19′ 763N/081. 08′ 234W Little Shark River, FL 3/15 and 25. 51′ 504N/081. 23′ 263W Everglades City, FL 3/16 Greetings!  We’re writing this update on Wednesday, 3/16 since we had no connection with the internet last night and we had no cell service either because we were anchored out in the middle of Little […]

3/14/11 Marathon Key, Fl N24’70.824′/W081’08.472′

Well, we finally got moving northward this morning at 10am.  We said goodbye to all the friends  we’ve made at Key West and at lst Baptist Church in Big Coppitt Key.  We also said good bye to our RV friends, Sam and Ann who served working at the church all winter.  We had Chris our Navy […]

Sunday, 3/6/11

Boca Chica NAS marina…In just a few days we’ll be loosening the lines from the dock here and heading north to CT.  Our expected arrival date will be in the first week of May.  This week, we were invited to lunch by our friend Roger who we met several times on our way down the […]

Sunday, 2/27/11

Boca Chica NAS Marina, Key West The weather has been gorgeous all week.  Luke checks the Hartford Courant webpage each morning and sees the severe winter up North seems to be gone now and we are praying you will be blessed with an early spring.  We are making preparations to head northward in less than […]

Sunday, 2/20/11

Boca Chica, Naval Air Station marina…There has been a lot of jet activity this week, as well as parachutes in the air over Boca Chica.  Key West has the most perfect weather this time a year for training and many come from other places around the U.S. to train.  We also had a perfect full […]

Sunday, 2/13/11

Boca Chica NAS marina, Key West, FL…We got our slip back due to a cancellation of reservations and we will stay here for 3-4 weeks and then we’ll head north.   For now, we’re thankful where God has placed us, for the good weather, good friends and opportunities to serve others as disciples of Jesus.  We’re also […]

Sunday, 2/6/11

NAS Marina Boca Chica, Key West Another week in paradise (human thinking) since we know that only Heaven is the real Paradise.  It has been in the 70′s/80′s and sunny skies.  We had to move to a non-slip spot in Navy marina for a few weeks as the marina is booked 100%.  So we’re on […]