We had a couple of neighbors at our anchorage on Sugar Bay...Blue Angel and Adios II came in a couple of nights ago. We had spent time with Blue Angel when they were docked at Port Sheldon for the summer...we're both from Grand Haven and they had provided us some advice to calm our loop startup apprehensions. Adios II was anchored off our home dock on Spring Lake the weekend we left home and we chased them out to Lake Michigan as we began the loop. We called Adios out on the big lake....they'd been on the loop about 6 months....our reply was we'd been on the loop 3 hours!
....our first contacts with Loopers and here they are at our anchorage more than a month later. It's a smaller world on the Loop.
So it was also Matt and Sonya's last night camping at LBL so we had a nice get together at his camp site. Us three Loopers and the landlubbers. I'd caught a few fish and had a nice bunch of fillets, so we did our first Looper Paella on shore. Matt's special...chicken, ribs from the Paducah BBQ Festival and freshwater fish...turned out very tasty....just need some more soccrat on the bottom!
Twins will head back to GTB monday to install a new TV antennae on the boat then head back up the Tenn to our winter base at Aqua Harbor Marina.
Still lovin' it.....
The sun goes down over the Tennessee River
Kayaks back home at our stern
GTB Sunrise
You're barn's on fire!
6 weeks of smoking the tobacco leaves to create snuff or chewing tobacco!
Twins Chase Vehicle on the Loop
It's a courtesy car on the move if you can catch us with it!
what a mess....pulled anchor....and raised a bramble patch..Bassholes strike again!!!!!
a bunch of branches wired together to a rock caught in our anchor...wire cutters please!
They started a burn ban yesterday in LBL due to drought and the leaves falling.
luckily we enjoyed a fire earlier in the week
When they dammed Lake Barkley, they did not cut any of the trees first so you find them at anchor
this was the top of a tree we pulled up in the morning after swinging for two nights!
The water is down for the winter pool
so you can see the bridge and road!
Louisville Slugger Bat
Unscheduled stop in Louisville
Ryder Cup and the Slugger
Finally Some real exercise
We rode the bikes from the anchorage to the boat show....sore legs after the up's and downs, particularly the gravel up to the highway!
Finally some time for fishing....
....looks like fish on the grill tonight!
First Meal out in Paducah
a Pizza from a nice wood fired oven at Max's to celebrate the Loop closing of "Our Turn"
Covered in fish flies from the anchorage
The Gulls went crazy!
Sun's up on Peoria Lake
...leaving the Blue Point Creek Anchorage
Stern Anchor Chain
from the muddy waters by Blue Creek Point
Ottawa FREE wall (from the porch of the Ottawa Boat Club)
end of week one!
Lying along the wall in Chicago Harbor!
north of the Chicago Harbor Light
Lying along the wall at St Joe
End of Day One....day two too!
Leaving Spring Lake under the Grand Haven Bridge
THE Journey Begins
The burgee on the big lake Mishegame...north wind at one knot!
August 2008.....
Time to hit the water
North Channel 2007
Benjamins
About us....
- TWINS
- Spring Lake & Punta Gorda, Mishegame or the FL sandbar
- Their blog chronicles the journey of Jim and Vaughn aboard their boat TWINS as they travel the Great Loop (aka Great Circle), their multi-year circumnavigation of lakes, rivers, and waterways around the Eastern United States.
Paella on the rocks....
North Channel Cuisine
cooking paella over an open wood fire
have pan will travel....
resting before consumption!
Twins at Anchor
Heywood Island, North Channel
Anchored at the cut...
Beardrop Harbour