Tourist Chronicles: January 2013

Monday, January 28, 2013

2012 Highlights (Leg 4 On to Florida)

We spent a couple of nights at Atlantic Yacht Basin in Chesapeake, Va. to replenish our supplies before continuing South. Nights found us anchoring along the ICW as well as a few marina nights. Hurricane Sandy slipped by us as we sat at Port Royal Landing Marina near Beaufort, SC.

Stops were also made at Charleston, Savannah, & St. Augustine before turning West on the Okeechobee Waterway to our destination of Legacy Harbour in Ft. Myers.

All in all a good year of travel on board Tourist.

Waiting on one of the many bridges along the ICW.

Sunset's

Morning Fog

Local History

Old Boats

Narrow Entrances

Waccamaw River

Charleston

Tugboats

Savannah

Open Water

Beautiful Skies

Boat Storage Yards

Legacy Harbour

2013 here we come!

Friday, January 18, 2013

2012 Highlights, Leg 3 Chesapeake Bay

Following a month at home we returned to Tourist and continued our travels into the Chesapeake. We traveled as far north as Georgetown on the Sassafras River before turning around to visit Baltimore, Annapolis, and Washington, D.C. on the return. Our Chesapeake adventure ended when we arrived back at Atlantic Yacht Basin in Chesapeake, Va.
The pictures below are just a few of the highlights of our Chesapeake journey. So many places. So little time.

Chesapeake Bay

Norfolk

Yorktown Battlefield

Carrotoman River Anchorage

St. Mary's, Maryland

Screwpile Lighthouse

Cambridge, Md.

Crabcake Sandwich

Tilghman Island Country Store

Old Soda Fountain in Rock Hall

Old Sailing Ships

Relaxing on the Hook

Galena, Md.

Sassafras River Sunrise

Fell's Point (Baltimore)

Entryway Knockers

Chesapeake Bay Bridge

Annapolis

Calm Water

Washington, D.C.

Coconuts Invasion

Loaner Bikes

Kent Narrows Bridge

St. Michael's, Md.

Potomac Morning

Washington, D.C.

Portsmouth, Va.

Deltaville Oyster Feed & Gun Auction

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Recap of 2012 Travels

2012 was another good travel year aboard Tourist. We took it easy the first couple of months with just some short trips around the waters of Southwest Florda. Late March found us casting off and heading East to the clear waters of the Bahamas. We spent a few weeks in the Lucaya area and then ventured on to the Abacos. We crossed back to the states on May 5th making landfall in Ft. Pierce, Fl.

From Ft. Pierce we moved north along the ICW. Tropical Storm Beryl found us holed up in Beaufort, SC for a few days. Eventually we popped into the Chesapeake on July 23rd following a month long hiatus at home. The remainder of the summer and into fall we explored the Chesapeake Bay area with a side trip up the Potomac to Washington D.C.

On October 14th we passed ICW Mile 0 in Norfolk and began our trek back south. Once again we found ourselves sitting out a storm in Beaufort, SC. This time it was Hurricane Sandy which even after it passed by, left strong winds for several days keeping us in port. Eventually we were able to move and continued heading South.

November 9 saw us turn West on the Okeechobee Waterway and head for Ft. Myers. We took our time and arrived back at Legacy Harbour on 11/13/12.

Our 2012 travels covered 3997 statute miles. 436 engine hours. And 3339.4 gallons of fuel.

Looking back further since we first left Mid-Town Marina in East Dubuque, Il. on November 1 of 2008 we have travelled 18,826 miles in Tourist and Pam's still talking to me!

Picture highlights of the past years travels. Legs 1 & 2.

LUCAYA