So I finally got my laptop back—YAY! And now I can get caught up with blogging about our super awesome trip so far. Our adventure began on Friday, June 27th and our first stop was Ballard Oil to take on 100 gallons of diesel. It had been about a year since we topped off the …
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Sorry there haven’t been any updates on our Keys trip on the blog. I’ve been posting to Facebook when I can and as some of you might know, I’m without my MacBook Pro. My Mac decided to quit on me halfway to Jewfish Basin on the 2nd day of our trip. For those of you …
As a few folks might already know, we have been planning a trip to the Keys this summer. While we’ve been out plenty of times for extended weekends, this will be our first major trip on Blue Turtle. Our plan (weather permitting, of course) is to head to the Dry Tortugas first, then on to …
Last Saturday, Randy and I departed Snook Bight Marina and headed toward Captiva Island. We anchored right off of Tween Waters Inn and dinghy’ed ashore to have dinner and a Rogerita or two at The Green Flash restaurant. We only stayed one night there and the next morning we headed to South Seas Island Resort. Randy …
With the holiday weekend over Memorial Day giving us a little more time away, we decided to head south toward Keeywadin Island. This was our second trip there, the first being right after Christmas 2013, and we were excited to explore this area again. The 6 hour trip there was uneventful and once we were anchored …
Since last weekend we played at Tween Waters Inn & Marina, we decided this weekend we would get some boat projects out of the way. We have a small list of projects to finish before heading to the Keys in July. Randy knocked out a couple of them yesterday: installing dive tank brackets in the …
This month, Randy, Corey and I are celebrating 2 years living aboard Blue Turtle. It was May of 2012 that we brought Blue Turtle (then called “Down Time”) home to Fort Myers from Longboat Key. Our first year living aboard was a bit overwhelming, it seemed that every time we tried to fix something, another …
We love Tween Waters Inn and Marina. What’s not to love about beautiful Captiva Island and staying at a resort and marina with the beach across the street, access to the pool and grill and several great restaurants? This past Friday, Randy, Corey, Sophie and I headed to Captiva Island for a fun-filled weekend. Randy …
The local forecast for Easter weekend here was all doom and gloom. According to our local weather stations we were to have a 70-80% chance of precipitation on Friday and Saturday, but we weren’t going to let this keep us on the dock. Randy and I have been working our butts off painting the exterior …
One side project that happened while we were painting our boat was to remove the radar that was mounted on the front of our boat the the mast. We had always wanted to put it on the mast where it would function better being above the boat rather than in front. Randy had to moving …
For the past several weeks, Randy and I have been hard at work on a large boat project—painting the exterior of Blue Turtle. When we first purchased Blue Turtle, we knew immediately that we would have to paint her one day. The exterior paint was worn all the way down to the fiberglass in some …
Usually “fun” and “boat projects” don’t fall in the same sentence and in this case, they don’t. This is what’s been going on for the last 2 1/2 weeks and they have been BUSY. We’ve had some fun…a dinghy trip to New Pass (finally!) with our newly fixed prop, a visit from Randy’s cousin Todd …