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  • WL Updates Fall 2012-Spring 2013
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  • Day By Day 2011 Refit
  • "Refit" SW Florida 2010
  • 2009 - 2010 Colon, Panama to Florida
  • Annapolis to SW Florida
  • 2004 - 2005 Cut The Dock Lines! NW Caribbean
    • Goodbye Burnt Store! Off to Marathon Key
    • Waiting For Weather: Marathon
    • Our First Crossing: Dry Tortugas to Isla Mujeres >
      • Handbasket I
      • Handbasket II
      • Handbasket III
    • Isla Contoy and Isla Mujeres
    • Weather In Isla
    • Culebra Cays, Bahia de la Ascension, MX
    • San Pedro, Belize
    • Lamanai, Belize
    • Drowned Cayes & Belize City
    • Reflections On Cruising From Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize
    • Lighthouse Reef Atoll Con't
    • Tobacco & Colsen Cayes & Bluefield Range, Belize
    • Rio Dulce, Guatemala
  • About David & Jan
  • Life Inside Winterlude
  • Outfitting Winterlude
    • Getting Ready to Cut the Dock Lines
    • Changes Cruising the Western Caribbean
    • What Works & What Doesn't
  • Catamaran Hotel & Resort, Rio Dulce, Guatemala
  • Hurricane Charley
  • 2001-2004 Getting Ready Adventures
  • Tiger Cruise: US Navy
  • Lessons From The Bay Islands 2005-2006 (incl Robbed in Utila)
    • Robbed In Utila
    • Easting To Guanaja
    • Lucky Enough ... Jonesville, Roatan
    • One Particular Cut

Isn't This Smile What Thanksgiving Is All About? :)

11/28/2011

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Returning from a great family Thanksgiving, I'm reminded we are so lucky to live in paradise!

11/27/2011

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Thanksgiving Week! Our Favorite Thanksgiving Anchorage.

11/21/2011

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Sapzurro, Columbia, on the border between Panama and Columbia.  Great friends and a great cruising Thanksgiving from the past.
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Wandering Lonely Beaches ... One Of My Favorite Pastimes...

11/20/2011

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There are still barrier islands with very little human interaction.  I love wandering islands where my footprints mingle with the blue herons prints.  
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Manatee Lagoon ....

11/16/2011

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Beautiful spot.  There's an alligator sunning himself on the starboard side as you enter this lagoon full of manatees.  Once inside, be sure to shut down your outboard engine and break out the paddles so you can interact fully with the manatees! 
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The Eagles Are Back!

11/15/2011

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We took the dinghy down past the Love Canal today to visit our friend's the Eagles.  But they weren't home and we were bummed.  We walked the beach and enjoyed the solitude, but no Eagles was depressing. BUT on our way back across the island to the dinghy, the Eagles had returned.   They must have just been out fishing or something because two of them were back!  Not a good photo, I don't have enough zoom on the lense, but you can still see that it's an eagle sitting in her nest!  Her mate is perched on the tree nearby.  The Eagles have Landed!   Great start to this year's cruising season! 
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My Manatee Buddy

11/14/2011

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We drifted about Manatee Lagoon today in the dinghy, outboard shut down to enjoy the show.  Watched about 12 manatees doing everything from mating to just hanging out.  This guy (or gal) has a crush on me and followed us around the little lagoon and even out toward the exit.  I'm standing in the dinghy and NOT using zoom for this photo - he swam under the dinghy several times - David was afraid he'd capsize us, but we escaped.  Manatees are SO ugly they're cool and this one had a crop of barnacles that betrayed his age!  :) 
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Sails Are On, Weather Is Good ....

11/11/2011

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I'm hoping that it's time to go sailing ... if even for just a week or so.
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Varnish & Dolphins

11/10/2011

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Do you know how hard it is to get a photo of a dolphin that's playing with the boat while you're trying to varnish the rail?  This dolphin along with her baby dolphin were cavorting around our boat, sometimes bumping the boat & under the dock next to us most of the morning.  Every time I'd put the varnish brush down & pick up the camera, they'd disappear.  Put down the camera & pick up the varnish brush, and they're literally within touching distance.  They pinned a fish against the stern piling while David was wet-sanding, not 4 feet away.  Amazing and so unphotographable.... (is that a word?).  :)
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Lonely Here in the Marina!

11/9/2011

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Not much time to think about photos of the day while getting the boat ready to go adventuring ... hopefully later this week, but only out to Cayo Costa, a barrier island just north of Sanibel & Captiva, FL and one of my favorite places.  Here's Winterlude getting her exterior teak redone, lonely with not many boats on the dock yet.
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