The weather looks perfec today, clear skies light winds and cool, it did get down to 45 last night though. There was mist on Ingram Bayou we raised the anchor and were underway at 7am. Our route East brought us past Perdido Key, Pensacola, and Santa Ro…
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Point cadet Marina to Ingram Bayou
We woke up this morning and the weather was fine, clear skies, light SW winds and cool. I checked out with the marina office and we took in all the lines we had out, there were more than usual due to the high winds shifting from differnt directions a f…
Stormy Weather Wednesday (posted Thursday)
Still in Point Cadet Tuesday night It got windy around midnight from then in it just got worse. By 8AM a full storm was on lots of lightning and thunder, high winds from the SE shifting to NW and horizontal rain, lots of it. All the lines and fend…
Point Cadet Marina Biloxi MS windy day
As was forecast the wind was very strong all day today. When we arrived here yesterday we were tied at the end of a dock near the bay entrance, when the southeast winds picked and pushed the waves into the marina we were bou…
Seabrook Marina to Point Cadet Marina Biloxi, Mississippi
I brought the rental car to Enterprise’s office at 7:30 they brought me back to the Marina and we were on the way by 8AM. It is cool, winds from the east about 10 K. We had one Railway bridge to go through to get to the Intracoastal it opened for …
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Posted from home pics from Boomtown to Seabrook Marina
A morning shot just before we left Boomtown the two houseboats, tied side by side, were pretty close to us. The crews were nowhere to be seen I know they had a late night at the casino they were pretty loud when they boarded last night, must have been…
Seabrook Marina
A tug at the levee Boomtown Casino it is a spot used for crew changes an easy spot to get on or off . We usually overnight at the “corner” in the foreground. Monday night two houseboats tied up next to us.This is a huge pumping station being built near…
MVGUMBO 2011-03-01 18:55:00
We got off to a good start this morning it was kind of windy but clear and cool. We left Boomtown at 7:30 and had locked through into the Mississippi a bit less than an hour later, then it was a quick trip downriver with the current helping us along. A…
Houma to Boomtown Casino
We got off to a windy start today it has also been overcast and drizzled a bit around noon.There was quite a bit of traffic on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and we met about 15 tows on the way here. Near Lafitte Louisiana there is a huge construction …
