Right now Dec. 11, we are in Port Lucaya on The Grand Bahama Island and this is a picture of Anthony at Bimini when we first arrived in The Bahamas. My sailingblog is still on the ICW so this picture is just a tease. More of the Bahamas to come.....right now ICW....heading for The Bahamas.
Sunset along the way on ICW in Virginia. There were miles and miles of grassy marsh. It was just amazing and so peaceful.
These are Great Egrets in the Marsh. There was phosphoressence in the water, it sparkles like the air at Sunshine Mountain in the winter. Birdwatching was still great. Birds I saw were Whopping Cranes, Cormorants, Pelicans, Gulls, Terns, Shore birds, Great Blue Herons and more. Places we passed by had names like Cattle Pen Creek, Johnson Creek, South Beach, the Atlantic Ocean, Bear River, etc.
This is my coffee mug for Special Coffee. It holds a lot of coffee and I love that fact. I love Hazelnut Coffeemate in the coffee and a coffee liquor, any kind is great.
Look at that marsh, it goes on and on and on....forever.
Here's part of a bridge. They don't use it anymore but they didn't pull it down so we could see the ruins.
Isn't this a cute little tug boat. There were a lot of different looking tugboats along the ICW.
I'm at the helm again, listening to my tunes and taking self portraits.
There is one of the swing bridges.
Same swing bridge, we were coming from the North and passed through the bridge on the right. Places we passed were: Dog Hammock Spit, Little Mud River, Buttermilk Sound. Boats we met were: Lady Di a powerboat, Cassiopea, a schooner with a gaff rig, and others.
There were a lot of big beautiful homes along the ICW. Places we passed....St. Andrews Sound, St. Simon's Sound, MacKay River, Jekyll Canal, Long Point, Cumberland Island.
Look at the size of this yacht. Man!!!!!
This must be first thing in the morning....look at those slits for eyes.
At some places along the ICW you can see the Atlantic Ocean. There are places where you can go out and sail on the ocean or stay in and continue on the ICW. It's exciting to get a glimpse of the ocean. This is a sunrise.
We're on the road/water again. Averaging 9 hours of motoring a day and about 50 nautical miles.
This is Cassiopia the Schooner with Gaff Rig. The masts are the same height so it's a schooner. We called the Captain on our VHF and told them what a beautiful boat he had and asked him where he was going. He was on his way to the ocean.
What is this?????? It looks like trailers.... on a barge....with a boat tied to the side....what are they doing right in the middle of the river????? Men are working on it, they are pulling up old rusted pipe, huge pipe maybe for water. How are we going to get by? After about 15 minutes a tug boat pushed the barge over to the side of the river enough for us to get by.
9 hours has passed and we are now at our anchorage for the night. Reading, supper, Scrabble and an episode of Heroes.
Pelicans, pelicans, and more pelicans. The solid grey ones are immatures and the white neck and headed ones are mature. There are also two species of pelicans. We are passing under a fixed bridge here.
Some mornings were misty and had very, very heavy dew on the windshield that we had to sqweegy off. That is a bridge in front of us so it's time to call them on the VHF to see when they will open. It might be swinging or it might lift.
Great clouds. Saw Turkey Vultures, today, and gulls, pelicans, Monarch Butterflies. It's Saturday and there are lots of recreational fishing boats out on the rivers and canals. It fun to see the other people having fun.
Another rainy day. At the anchorage we saw Thiati Wata, a sail boat that I have heard many times on the Cruisers Network on our Single Side Band. We passed Fort St. George, Salamander Lodge, Whooping Cranes and it was Manatee Zone so we were told to slow down. I didn't see any in the water but I saw one dead on the shore, very sad.
What are these things? There's a whole bunch of them...oh man...their a seado party. There were Mom's and Dad's and children on Sea Dos everywhere. They came up past us then stopped ahead of us and regrouped and took off again. It's the weekend.
And another new day on the marshes in the Intra Coastal Waterway on our way to Miami.
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