Dawn and sunrise on Tuesday, December 2, 2025
This morning, Christi woke up with a bunch of bug bites on her legs. Eric had warned her to wear pants yesterday since he’d gotten a couple of bug bites while onshore on Sunday. She regretted not taking his advice. But at least it wasn’t nearly as many as we’d gotten at Lubber’s Landing.
Continue readingMonday, December 1, 2025 — It was another colorful dawn, despite the fact that the sunrise itself was completely blocked by clouds.
After we finished school and morning chores, we went to lunch at Grabbers with Tiki Tour. Conveniently, Grabbers had their own dock.
Sunday, November 30, 2025 — We apparently missed a beautiful rainbow this morning. A fellow cruiser sent us these photos.
This morning started off as a lazy Sunday morning. We had no plans to move. Then, one of the family boats announced they were moving to an anchorage where the kids could play in the water. The other two families said they’d go, too. The sea conditions weren’t going to be great and Eric wasn’t eager to go. But they were all in sailboats and it was a good day to sail, so we understood why they were eager to move. We knew that if we wanted to stay with the families on sailboats, we’d have to get used to traveling on windy days instead of calm days. We decided to follow.
Continue readingFriday, November 28 — It was an interesting sunrise. The clouds mostly blocked the colors, but wherever there was a gap in the clouds, the colors were vivid.
There had been a little bit of rain overnight. It was a gloomy morning. The wind was at 12 – 15 knots and the anchorage was quite rocky. It never failed to surprise us at how little fetch it took for wind waves to form. Unlike Thursday, there wasn’t much boat traffic. It seemed most boaters had hunkered down for the windstorm. The temperature was warm enough for shorts in the morning, but as the day progressed, it cooled down. By the late afternoon, we were wearing sweaters. Due to the thick cloud cover, the solar panels only produced 1/3 of the electricity that they normally generated.
Continue readingNovember 21 – 28, 2025 — This week has been fun. On Saturday, we went to a cool coffee house for breakfast then went to another anchorage called Tilloo. When we anchored, Dad moved the boat backwards to make sure the anchor was dug in all the way, and it was because I flew backward when he went in reverse.
Cette semaine était amusante. Samedi, nous avons mangé le petit déjeuner à un cafe, puis nous sommes allés à un autre ancrage qui s’appelle Tilloo. Quand nous nous sommes ancrés, papa a reculé le bateau pour s’assurer que l’ancre était enfoncée dans le sable, et c’était bien enfoncé parce que ça m’a fait tomber à la renverse.
