THE JOURNEYS OF TERRMAR IV: FEB 19-20,2012- BOCA GRANDE, FL

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!

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

FEB 19-20,2012- BOCA GRANDE, FL

We arrived in this upscale Florida town located at the south end of Gasparilla Island and stayed only one night. That is really all the time we needed to see what there was to see! Docking was interesting with finger docks non- existing, just 4 wood pilings. (Surely they could afford to upgrade, but I guess it added to the old time feel of the town.) Must have been a sight, Mark, I and Smudge trying to get on and off the boat from the stern, especially when the tide changed! We toured the island from south to north and back again from a rented golf cart. What a hoot! Great driving Bonnie!

Terri