OUR PLAN

We are writing this blog for one reason and one reason only. To provide a vehicle to make it easier to remain in touch with our family and friends back home.



Our plan is simple. Depart our home port of Goderich, Ontario in the Summer of 2011. Cruise Georgian Bay and the North Channel of Lake Huron while visiting some of the ports and anchorages we have missed over the years. As well as revisiting some of our favourite haunts hopefully with some of our very good friends with whom we have cruised with many times before. All the while adding up the miles and gaining experience with our new trawler. Our first and only self imposed deadline is to be in the Chicago area around Labour Day. South of Chicago, weather and circumstances will guide us!



Monday, November 26, 2012

SEPT 23-OCT 1,2012- ALVA (OWL CREEK), FL

Whew!!  What a whirlwind of a spring and summer!  It didn’t take long to get right back into the swing of life back home.  We made it home just in time to welcome our precious grandson into our family.  We are truly blessed!   Took time out for Mark to have his knee replaced and back on his feet.  Wonderful to see all our family and friends, almost didn’t want to say goodbye.

Tempus fugit (time flies) and in a blink of an eye we arrived back to Terrmar at Owl Creek.  There she was, in the water, alligators still on watch, ready to cast off.  Surprise, surprise, what a small world!  Loopers Jerry and Jenny from “Sweetgrass” arrived at the same little backwater boat yard, the same day.  Chatted just long enough to say hello and then we were both headed out on the next leg of our journeys.  Terrmar, back down the Caloosahatchee River to Legacy Harbor in Fort Meyers, and Sweetgrass fast tracked for their home in South Carolina.

The heat and humidity hit us like a brick oven!  Apparently Florida was having unusually hot autumn temperatures and even the locals were complaining.  Looking at weather reports and day after day – 34 feels like 44 (Celsius).   Thank goodness for air conditioning, otherwise we would have melted away.  Late afternoons it cooled off long enough for us to enjoy our surroundings on the fly bridge.   
Sign of Spring

Grandchildren Ian and Lauren

Mark chatting with butterfly who visited us for 2 1/2 hours

Terri inhaling "The Bruce" @ Wey's Cottage

Jerry & Jenny from Sweetgrass

Condos towering over us @ Legacy Harbor


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