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By Sahara

Now before we get to the blog, I would just like to say: Happy Thanksgivukkah!!!! Be very careful how you pronounce this word. Don’t be like me, and try to say it in front of family members. You will not get anything for Christmas. Anyway, it is being called this because for the first time in 100 years Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah overlap.

Now, to get to the blog. This morning was a cleaning day, which means that after eating a breakfast of muffins, mom went and to...

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By Sahara

Yesterday we got up and headed off to explore the town, after looking at the map and memorizing where all the chocolate shops were! The first place we went to was the fort, Fort Castillo De San Marcos. It was ruled by the Spanish when they first came to America, built in the 1500’s, and was used by different groups of people all the way up to the 1900’s.  It was fairly large for that time, and had a lot of cannons. 
 
 

After the fort, we headed down the street that had all the...

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Nov 20
St. Simons Island Georgia.

We did a short hop today, as we didn't get a great nights sleep.  A very beautiful island, but we have cloudy, rainy, cold weather.  So we went to see Thor.  Never mess with a man with a hammer.  We might try and stop by here again on the way back north.  We are at a marina tonight to help catch up on sleep.  Florida is only 80 miles away!!  We could do it in one day, but will probably do it in 2.  High tide is at 11 tomorrow, perfect for us.  High water all da...
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 November 12 and 13th 

 

Yesterday when we arrived at Charleston, it was really hot and was after a long day of traveling and we were pretty tired, but we still explored the town and the first place we went to was the hotel. We went to the hotel because there was a trolley there so we could go into the town. The first place we went to was the fudge store (where they make fudge and you can watch them do it, yaay!) and so we got some fudge and went on. After the fudge we didn’t really go anyw...

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Charleston, South Carolina, Nov 12

Yesterday we got to Charleston around 1 in the afternoon. We had to dock somewhere as there were reports for bad weather that night and today. (20-30 knot winds, really cold). So when we got all tied up, we decided to head into town and look around. We had to take a shuttle bus into town, as it was far away and over a massive bridge. So when we got into downtown, the first shop when we got off was the Fudgery, (Now my computer is being stupid and saying that ...

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We got to Wrightsville two days ago. On our first day, we didn’t do much as we got in later in the afternoon. Well, we did go to the Bluewater restaurant, which serves fresh seafood, and was really good!!  The next day we met with a friend, who was really awesome and brought cookies!!!!!!! This was a working day, when we just fixed up or put on some stuff, like lights and engine oil. For diner, we had fresh caught shrimp, which you can catch all around here, and yellow fin tuna. For those w...
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We took a short 8 mile trip today from our peaceful anchor last night to Belhaven North Carolina.  The Night was so calm, not what was foretasted.  Another boat we have been cruising with was anchored at the other end of the Canal and had 30 knot winds!!!  We had 30 knot winds on the way here, but the river is narrow and although windy, it was not rough.  We got the auto pilot fixed (well.....ok, not fixed, but re corrected the pilot error of button pushing and reset the correct settings so n...
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Belhaven Memorial Museum

 

Today we went to the Belhaven Memorial Museum, as it was a cold windy day and we had nothing better to do. The entire museum is a collection of some kooky lady, though it’s actually very interesting. She collected EVERYTHING. Literally. But before I tell you about that, I’ll give you some history. This lady, who people called Mrs.Why, collected for 70 years. She died at age 93 in 1962, which was old for that time. Though I think she could have done something bet...
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Belhaven memorial museum

When we arrived at Belhaven, we went to the museum. At first we thought it was a normal museum, but after we got inside it was about a really insane woman who collected nearly everything. But what I really liked was the 45 pound German machine gun that was in World War 1, the 2 headed pig, the Cyclops pig, the eight-legged pig and a lot of other things. Some other cools things like a whale skull and anchor from a British warship from the early 1800s (probably 2-3 hundr...

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Nov 1st

We spent the day seeing some of the attractions in Norfolk.  We went to the USS Wisconsin, and Iowa Class battle ship that was retired not too long ago.  It last served in the Iraq war.  Some cool facts, the 16 inch guns could shoot a 2,000 lb bomb over 20 miles, and in later years had Tomahawk missile that could shoot 1,200 miles.  To put that in perspective, from Norfolk VA where it is now, it could hit Toronto.
 
Big guns and missile launchers

Around town there are a bunch of mermaid ...
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Oct 2nd and 3rd.

We spend 2 days seeing Baltimore.  First day we went to the Science center that is right on the Harbor water front. 
  

That night we went over to another boat for Burgers.  Through a mutual Canadian friend, we met the Morris family who is also traveling for the year down to the Bahamas with their children, ages 12, 13, and 18.  They are traveling on a motor trawler (but we still like them).  Sahara and Devon helped them catch some crabs in Baltimore harbor that night, came back...
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Motored up the harbor, passed Fort Henry and the Francis Scott Key Buoy.  The buoy marks the location where he apparently was held in a ship as he watch the attack and had the inspiration for the poem that became the national anthem.

We made it to the dock! (Always nervous driving this boat in close quarters and docking, still new at this)



We are at a marina within a few hundred yards of a few cool ships to see.  We took two tours today.
The tall ship was the USS Constellation.  
  
The cannon onl...
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October 28th and 29th
We stayed for two nights at the town of St. Michaels.  Claim they fooled the British in the war of 1812.  Very busy place on a saturday.  We ate at the Crusty Crab (Crabby Claw really) and had oysters!  Raw and steamed.  After going to the museum and seeing all the info about oysters, we had to try some.  

Had some great ice cream!!!  Always a high light.

Neat museum, and the town is the birth place, and child hood home of Frederick Douglass.

The anchorage was busy Saturday ...
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