North Star on the Great Loop Journey: Sunset Celebration at Fort Myers Beach

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.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Sunset Celebration at Fort Myers Beach

It is amazing how much more you appreciate a place when you have more time on your hands to fully explore it. We were at Fort Myers Beach last year but we were always so rushed.
We rode our bikes over the long, steep bridge again on Thursday and went to see the other end of the island called Bowditch Park. It is quite a nice part of the beach with hard packed sand and lots of shells.

we rode 16 miles to the tool store again because there was a sale. I personally go for the exercise and to stop at thrift stores to get more movies. It was so hot that when we got back to the boat, I had a 2 hour siesta.

We went to Fort Myers beach for the sunset celebration that takes place on Fridays and Saturdays. There is music and various forms of entertainment. It is somewhat like Key West but on a smaller scale. The weather is so nice we can stroll in shorts and t shirts even in the evening. We found a nice pub on the beach with the tables and chairs on the nice fine white sand.

There are dolphins going by the boat as I blog and it promises to be an other fine day in paradise.