Wednesday, December 24, continued… It wasn’t long before they found a clearing with the remains of a foundation of a building. The sign said “Davis Ruins.”
It looked like it was once a small house and possibly some small outbuildings near the house.
Saturday, December 20, 2025 continued — Tiki Tour caught up to us and passed us near the sandbar, which was not far from the rendezvous spot at the mouth of the ocean. The sandbar and mouth were in the background of the photo.
The mouth.
Shortly after we beached our dinghies, the rest of the flotilla arrived. The kids quickly split up into smaller groups based on common interests. The group Keith went with mostly swam. Another group was playing ball on the beach.
Continue readingMonday, November 17 continued… once we’d anchored, we breathed a huge sigh of relief. We made it! Woo hoo! We watched the sunrise.
We noticed that, unlike most of the other places we’d visited in The Bahamas, the water had a green hue to it instead of the typical stunning azure blue. The water in and of itself was clear, but there was algae on the sand, giving the water the green tint.
After the sunrise, we got to work. Keith did a light rinse down to get the worst of the salt off. Now that we were back to making all of our own water, we were concerned about water usage, so he was careful to not use more than was absolutely necessary. Christi wiped down the windows with wet, lightly soaped rags.
Eric went out to the back deck and configured the boom from paravane mode to dinghy mode. He had to twist a little awkwardly to undo the shackles and reattach them differently, which involved bending and twisting at awkward angles. At one point, he felt something was wrong, and realized that he’d hurt his back.
Continue readingFriday, October 31 — This morning it felt like 38 degrees with wind chill factor. Christi had a hard time dragging herself outside to watch the sunrise. Because of the cold, she didn’t stay outside long, but she was glad she at least got to enjoy a few minutes of the lovely dawn, Here were a couple shots:
We were pleased to report that this morning, the flooding was gone and all was back to normal in the marina. While Christi and Keith did school, Eric cleaned the sea strainers. There was lots of mud in them and two live fish! One fish was long and skinny. He thought it looked like a snake and wondered if it was an eel.
Continue readingcontinued… Three weeks after the battle ended, Gettysburg attorney David Willis wrote to the Pennsylvania governor and proposed a new cemetery location in Gettysburg where the soldiers in the temporary graves could be properly buried. Wills got the approval from the governor and purchased the 17-acres of land. He hired a landscape architect, who designed the cemetery as a semi-circle, with soldiers of each state buried together in distinct sections.
Moving the bodies from the temporary graves to the cemetery sounded like it was a tough job. Wills paid contractors $1.59 per body moved. 3,555 bodies were moved within two years. It sounds like they were diligent to make sure all the Union soldiers bodies were moved… and it sounds like many Confederate soldiers bodies were overlooked for a decade. After the overlooked bodies were finally exhumed, they weren’t buried at the cemetery in Gettysburg — instead, they were shipped south.
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