Lemon Bay White Elephant Bar

So this is where we anchored for several days while we visited friends and John bless his sole tried to get rid of his cold. This is the Bay and a lot of boats that are abandoned. So we anchored in this bay and used the pub to park our car not a real car […]

Royal Palm Marina, Englewood

So we are off towards Englewood and what a day as you will see. Bicycle paths on both sides of the river as you leave Venice. This is the artical in the newspaper about a boat that caught fire and they lost their dog but the 2 people on board where rescued. These are the […]

Crowsnest Venice, FL

Well we made it to the Crowsnest and tied up on the outside dock. Marina is helpful but no discount for the same name, old man discount,free beer only 25 cents a foot off regular $2.50 a foot. So we thought the restaurant might be helpful.. The food was excellent the best waiter I have […]

Sarasota Bay heading for Venice

Now it is not Venice France but Venice Florida but I like to tease everyone. Big houses and a beautiful Bay to boot. I guess they have a convention on one of the islands in the mango trees there must have been a hundred of them just resting normally I am not quick enough to […]

Cortez

So we parked for the night at Cortez Bridge North the Coast Guard station is just behind us. Nice anchorage it is a slow zone and they really do go slow. Now we are anchored right next to some abandoned boat and this one both John and I cried about, It is the same as […]

St. Petersburg

WE arrived at Gulf Port Marina St. Petersburg hoping John and I both get a good rest to fight the cold. I am recovering John is not so good. Nice Marina and town, we called a lady that runs a volunteer electric car to take us shopping. She did and we got groceries and supplies […]

Clearwater

WE arrived in Clearwater and anchored in a Bay surrounded by Condos, Hotels and houses. So this is the Bay we anchored in for the nite and I took this picture first thing in the morning of what else another Osprey and the moon. The Osprey is on the top of this mast docked […]

Tarpon Springs

We tied up and went for a walk around town we were hungry and tired. Stopped had lunch then took a quick tour of a tourist town that every 20 feet someone is trying to sell you a cruise or something or talk you into visiting a restaurant or boat tour. Never before have I […]

Carrabelle

So we stayed an extra day at Carrabelle to join others to do the crossing. Casey and Kerry left on their own but met up with some other slow boats and crossed a day ahead of us. This is the marina and we had a meeting at 2:00 to discuss our crossing on Saturday leaving […]

Left Apalachicola

This was the fog in the morning and I tried to get a picture of the sun coming up over the shrimp boat. Much better picture than the day before. HAHA I am recovering still but much better. You can hardly see the markers so we will wait a little. Now here we have the […]