Preparing for the trip

Captain Jerry has been making the final preparations to North Star, our 32 foot Cape Island down east trawler. We are anxious to leave our landlubber lives behind and begin our long awaited journey around the Great Circle. Join us as we travel 10, 000 kilometers: through the historic Trent Severn Waterway; the pristine waters of Georgian Bay; the North Channel of lake Huron; and hop from beach to beach on lake Michigan. We will visit Chicago and begin our trek along the rivers: Illinois; upper Mississippi; Ohio; Cumberland: Tennessee; Tenn-Tom Waterway and the Black Warrior. We will have transited through 68 locks at this juncture. We have chosen the inner route from Mobile Alabama to Tarpon Springs Florida and the shorter Ocheechobee Waterway to reach the East coast of Florida. We will skip over to the Bahamas to wait out the winter before heading North on the Atlantic Inter Coastal Waterway.
The 10 years of researching and planning are finally at an end and we invite you to come along on our adventure.























Friday, December 2, 2011

The Lollipop

We arrived at the Lollipop yesterday afternoon and had a little trouble setting the anchor. It must be a hard bottom as this is a man made little branch off the Caloosahatchee River.  The head of the Lollipop is too deep for anchoring at 33 feet so we are in the channel in 8 feet of water ((N 26 47.808' and W81 17.275').  The shore line is fields , we are in farm country.  There are no houses around and no noise so it is a nice relaxing place.
We went exploring by dinghy over to Turkey Creek which is a series of 4 canals.  Many folks rent out their docks to boaters who wish to store their boats for the season. We just don't like the idea of leaving our boat in the water when we are gone.
We will be pulling up the anchor and going back to the boat yard for the week end to visit some friends before turning back towards Fort Myers for the holiday season.
North Star in the Lollipop

Turkey Creek
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