I am going to jump out of sequence for just a minute and tell you about our second lock of the day. It was the Peterborough Lift Lock that is Lock 21 on the Trent-Severn Waterway. It is the first of three super exciting and different locks that we…
The North Channel Part Two: 2010
Oak Bay to Little Current: After spending several days in our protected cove at Oak Bay, we are ready to continue our trip east. The winds have calmed down and we have a beautiful passage through the Whalesback Channel. From there we connect to the Wabuno Channel and are soon safely secure at the town […]
The Society Islands
After the PuddleJump party, we stayed in Mo’orea for a few more days. We swam with sting rays and black-tip reef sharks and enjoyed a tour of a juice factory. We sampled all of their drinks and even bought a few bottles of vanilla and pineapple lique…
Gibraltar to Denia
5th July 2010 Gibraltar to Puerto Banus
Happy Birthday Ian! Oh joy, oh joy, warm sunshine and calm seas at last! After birthday greetings and gifts were delivered we slipped out of Gibraltar, at a tardy 13:20, in festive mood; heading in th…
Peterborough Ontario
We had a delightful dinner with Ron and Sally Thursday evening and then Summer Star headed out early Friday morning. We decided to stay another day in Peterborough to rest and regroup before taking on the next series of T-S Waterway locks. The marina…
Bastille Day and Birthday Parties
The boating people are really a little floating community. They just travel from one island to the next, just socializing in a different setting all the time. So Bastille Day is a big thing here in French Polynesia, and the boat people are all excited …
Jamestown, RI
Click here to see our location in Narragansett Bay We arrived in Jamestown on Friday, July 9th. Jamestown is a special place for me (Lynnie) as it was where my Dad’s family lived and our family lived for several years while Dad was in the Navy…
Humpbacks and Bergs
The last three days were spent retracing our path from Petersburg to Endicott Arm via Frederick Sound, Stephens Passage and Tracy Arm Cove. As we rounded Cape Fanshaw we could see dozens of spouts and splashes from humpback whales feeding and playing f…
Endicott Arm and Humpbacks Again
Celebrating Connie’s Birthday with Glacial MargaritasBen & Connie Exploring the face of Dawes GlacierOne of several calvings on Dawes while we were thereBen & Connie exploringAnother potential christmas card photo of SpiritThere were still a l…
Milestones
We are very proud to have crossed two major milestones today. First, on a boat travel is measured in hours not miles. This is calculated by the length of time the engine has run. Today we passed the 1000 hours marker of the number of hours that we h…
