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.























Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Ocklawaha River


Ocklawaha River
Welaka is a really nice quiet little town.  A free dock where you can chat with the local fishermen, showers and good restaurants within walking distance. We went back to Shrimps R Us for the cheap breakfast.
A lady was fishing on the dock last night using a stick with line wrapped around it.  She was catching catfish and blue gill.  She lost one of her sticks overboard and Jerry was able to retrieve it for her.  I was winding the line back up for her when a cat fish took the hook.  There wasn't even any bait on it.
Today one of the fishermen gave Jerry some fish, nice folks.
Lots of Live Oaks, palms and Spanish moss
We went for a dinghy ride over to the Ocklawaha River but soon turned back because of the pesky deer flies.  We also went into Snake Creek and saw a 10 foot alligator.  Something about being in an inflatable boat with those large beasts around does not really thrill me.  The deer flies were bad here also so we came back to the boat. We found an other tiki bar on the water not far from here so we may go see what is happening there tonight.  We are most likely staying here tomorrow as well while Jerry continues his painting.


This gator did not want to get out of the way
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Location: Ocklawaha River, Florida, USA

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