Glimmer Glass Bridge – Very Old and Slow – I Think it Belongs in the Smithsonian MuseumIn the Fish Bowl at Glimmer Glass LakeCape May, New Jersey to Manasquan, New Jersey – It was a hot day with a heat haze over the ocean. We decided to take advantage …
Arrrgh, you Scalawags…
To see our most recent cruises and current position, Click Here.As you know, we had a “dinghy mishap” up in the Sassafras River. Welll, with that fixed at Worton Creek we headed to the Chester River for some water play. The weather had sett…
SATURDAY AUGUST 14TH
My cousin, Janice Magnuson, lives in Alexandria, Virginia. I don’t get to see her very often and I am excited that she is driving up to Baltimore to spend the day with us!!!She picked us up and we went out to Fort McHenry. Shortly after we arrived th…
FRIDAY AUGUST 13TH
Happy 33rd Anniversary to us!!!!!!!!!! The day I married Ross, I never dreamt we’d be doing a trip like this.Once again we crossed back across the Chesapeake Bay. Our destination being Baltimore. It was a rock and rolly crossing. Our course and…
Through the canals in Canada, the Rideau, Richelieu, & the Chambly
Wayne hand cranking the bridge at the lock, the parks manager let him try it out to see what it was like Merrickville, one of our favorite towns in Canada, great ice cream and restaurants here.Smiths Falls no longer has the Hershey’s chocola…
Hopewell Bay, Shawanaga Island 8-13-10
We continue to slowpoke along Georgian Bay and today took a 20 mile cruise to Shawanaga Island. We avoided the shoals and narrows of the Canoe Channel by taking the well-marked alternate channel past the Spruce Island shoals, the Pancakes and Squaw Isl…
Killbear Provincial Park 8-12-10
The park name caught our attention, too. Legend has it that maybe a bear killed a logger or a logger killed a bear in the 1800’s, but the First Nation stories say that the name commemorates the seasonal water journey bears take between the islands he…
Oh, is it hurricane season?
With my ownership of our new boat now pending, my first task was to make sure the boat was in good hands for the remainder of the hurricane season. Originally, we were looking for boats in Seattle, with an eye to buying something late this year, and sp…
Oh, is it hurricane season?
With my ownership of our new boat now pending, my first task was to make sure the boat was in good hands for the remainder of the hurricane season. Originally, we were looking for boats in Seattle, with an eye to buying something late this year, and sp…
M/V Island Hopper’s Log 2010-08-14 14:44:00
Naples to Longboat Key Moorings
The crew of IH shoved off from Naples Sailing and Yacht Club at 0915 and proceeded to a nearby fuel dock for several hundred gallons of diesel fuel to feed the thirsty engines. Destination for the night Tween Waters Re…
