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Friday and Saturday, March 18 and 19, 2011

We are in Melbourne, FL, at the Telemar Bay Marina. We visited with Doug and Joanie; our friends who live here.  Joanie brought me to Walmart and after we all had a nice dinner.  It was good to see them again.There is a rowing competi…

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Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday March 15, 16 and 17, 2011

We are getting used to sitting in the dark; gives us time to reflect on the day. We are adjusting our schedule and trying to get everything done before 19:30 when we turn the generator off.  The nights here are very quiet.We took the dinghy out&nb…

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Monday, March 14, 2011

We  left our anchorage on the Okeechobee Waterway around 09:30 and only had about 5 hours to go to Vero Beach, FL.  At 10:00 we entered the ICW and started Phase 10 of our journey.  The last few days we didn’t see any dolphins but a…

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

We spent 3 night at Sunset Bay Marina in Stuart.  It was a very nice marina but pretty pricey.  We got caught up on a lot of things; washing, grocery store, and we rode bikes to the West Marine store; a total of 6 miles.  That was the fi…

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Wednesday and Thursday, March 9 and 10, 2011

On Wednesday we had the bridge opened right out side of Moore Haven and we were on our way by 07:50.  We followed the Caloosahatchee Canal close to the lake shore for about 14 miles to Clewiston.  Since we were not going into town&n…

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

We had a beautiful day to travel on the water; mid 80’s and sunny.  We went through our first lock today since November 9, 2010, the Coffeeville Lock in Alabama. This makes a total of 47 lock so far on our trip.  This lock was op…

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Monday, March 7, 2011

Time to move on.  We have enjoyed our stay at Fort Myers.  The marina is in the heart of the historic downtown area, the people at the marina are very nice, and it is close to public transportation.  We would definitely recommend it…

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Not much going on these past few days. Keith did the engines and generator oil and filter changes so that is done for a while. I have been doing my charts for the Okeechobee Waterway and our start up the East Coast and also working on our taxes. I am s…

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Saturday, February 26, 2011

We walked to Edison and Fords winter homes and museum this afternoon.  About half way there I realized I did not have my camera; it was too hot to turn back so I decided to try using my telephone for pictures.  T…

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Friday, February 25, 2011

 We see these signs all over down here.-Manatee Zone Slow Speed.So far we have only seen 2 manatee Island for sale just outside of the City of Fort Myers Yacht Basin in theCaloosahatchee River-we would loveto buy itDave and Pat’s condo from …