Hanging Oak Tree

Hanging Oak Tree

Friday, April 20, 2007

A trip of a Lifetime

Welcome...So many of our friends and relatives have questioned how to get in touch with us and how will they know where we are and what were doing. We decided to blog. It's just some thoughts and feelings that we would like to share. It all started a few years ago. We belong to the greatest little yacht club in the world. It's limited to forty families. Each year, around Labor Day, the members have an auction to raise money to help support the club. One year we bid on and purchased a box of charts. They were from Flordia to the Great Lakes. Thus the start of our talks about taking a long trip. Now that we decided to take the trip, we would need a boat with diesel engines. We wanted two state rooms, one for us and one for company or storage. We didn't want a trawler because our friends all had fast boats. We didn't want to be the turtle with a bunch of rabbits. We wanted a comfortable salon and a galley with plenty of storage. We found a 33 SS Carver. It was big enough for us to move around and small enough to tie up in our backyard.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

We're ready to go.........

TALL SHIP, LAKE ERIE

TALL SHIP, LAKE ERIE
TALL SHIP, LAKE ERIE

THRILL SEEKERS

THRILL SEEKERS
THRILL SEEKERS

Murphy's in Port Dalhousie, Canada

Murphy's in Port Dalhousie, Canada
Murphy's in Port Dalhousie, Canada

800Ft Tanker, we gave him the right of way!

800Ft Tanker, we gave him the right of way!
800Ft Tanker, we gave him the right of way!

Holding onto a line in the Welland Canal

Holding onto a line in the Welland Canal
Holding onto a line in the Welland Canal

KING KONG GATES AT WELLAND

KING KONG GATES AT WELLAND
KING KONG GATES AT WELLAND

Port Dalhousie Carnival Carousel

Port Dalhousie Carnival Carousel
Port Dalhousie Carnival Carousel

Royal Canadian Yacht Club

Royal Canadian Yacht Club
Royal Canadian Yacht Club

View from CN Tower

View from CN Tower
View from CN Tower

Mike Swimming in Lake Oneida

Mike Swimming in Lake Oneida
Swimming in Lake Oneida

Lock #17

Lock #17

Another view of canal

Another view of canal

View of canal

View of canal

Another lock

Another lock

Last lock

Last lock