The boat’s in the barn now for the hurricane season. We’re back home in Illinois to enjoy the Spring and Summer seasons here.The end of another nice cruising winter.
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Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-03-20 18:05:00
We’re in Key West, FL after a 100 mile cruise over the Gulf of Mexico from Marco Island.Yesterday, we went down to the Everglades and took an airboat tour. It was fun, but mostly just an airboat ride, not an everglades tour because the airboat is so n…
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 …
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…
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-03-08 19:25:00
We had nice visitors over the weekend. My sister, Beth and her husband, Paul, and my brother Jim and his wife Laurie all came to visit us on the boat.They arrived on Friday and we went to the Selby Botanical Gardens nearby. The gardens have a beautif…
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-03-01 11:05:00
Just enjoying Sarasota and not much else here… taking Daisy to get her nails clipped today, painted a few spots on the door that had chipped paint. It’s still cool with temps in the 60s, but nice and sunny. The forecast is for it to be warmer this …
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-02-25 20:31:00
Chicago friends visiting…Longtime freinds Harry and Debbie Vellines visited us today. They are staying on nearby Amelia Island and drove over to see Sarasota with us. We walked over to the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens from our marina. It was sunn…
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-02-24 16:02:00
Chapel On The WaterWe’ve never seen this barge boat before, but it came in to Marina Jack’s at Sarasota for fuel today and then went back out towards Little Sarasota Bay and the ICW. This picture was from our deck. It has a complete chapel built on …
Doug & Kathy’s Boatlog 2010-02-21 12:35:00
Sheepshead! (Yes, more fish pictures.)I caught this large sheepshead under the bow of our boat today. The docks here are covered with oysters and barnacles, which the sheepsheads eat by chewing through the shells until they get to eat what’s i…
