2/26/2010 Friday
Arrival in Barra de Navidad
After an all nighter from Puerto Vallarta, we were a little tired. But, after tending to boat issues, we noticed that there were eight Nordhavns of various sizes in the marina. We in…
Captain’s Log updtate from 2/26 to 3/20
St. Patrick’s Day – Key West Style
The craziness continues down here in Cayo Hueso or the Island of Bones as Key West is known – the island has numerous aliases just like most of us who live down here (guess we’re all hiding from something – in our case it must be reality!!) Our friend…
The Everglades: Adventure of a Lifetime
Friends Shirley and Wayne discovered a Florida Humanities Council program on the Everglades and suggested we join them for the 4-day affair- What an adventure!! Officially called a “Gathering…”, the program is one of several through which the FHC engages both scholars and local cultural/civic leaders to provide participants with an in-depth exploration of the […]
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-03-18 17:11:00
We’re at Marco Island after a nice cruise in the gulf yesterday.Today, we went and got our car from Sarasota and I fished off the aft deck when the tide was running to carry my bait away behind the boat in the tidal current. I caught this one nice she…
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-03-16 15:16:00
We visited the Edison-Ford Complex today in Fort Myers, just a nice walk from the marina here and a nice sunny day. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford both had winter estates here in Ft. Myers. Ford actually worked for Edison before he invented his first …
Fueling
This weekend we completely filled our fuel tanks for the first time. We had called
around to get pricing for taking on 1,700 gallons:
Shilshole: $3.02
Poulsbo: $2.88 (up from previous …
March 15, 2010
No need to beware the Ides of March, at least from our perspective. The day is gorgeous–warm, sunny and blue-skied! Does it get better than this? And it’s been 2 weeks since we returned from IL and settled in to the pace of life a…
03-15-10 Sneads Ferry, NC – Thanks
[Rick] With us safely back in Sneads Ferry, the time has come to end our great loop adventure. However, we recognize that we would not have had such a great time without some help from many people. Along the way, we met many wonderful people and we hav…
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-03-15 17:09:00
We cruised South to Fort, Myers today. We plan to stay an extra day here to go see the Edison-Ford Complex… more about that tomorrow. Our marina is right to the left of these huge downtown condos before the bridge.We passed a beautiful bald eagle s…
03-14-10 Crossing Our Wake!
Betsy speaks: We attended our church in Topsail Beach this morning, and were surprised to be greeted at the door by our former (retired) pastor from Sneads Ferry Presbyterian. He lives nearby and knew we would be at Topsail’s Emma Anderson Chapel tod…
