The Great Loop

This web site is an attempt to provide a quick and easy way for our family and freinds to keep up with us on "The Loop"

The Great Loop is a 6000 mile jouney down the Tennessee River and the Tombigbee Waterway to Mobile, Alabama. From there around the coast of Florida via Key West with a side trip to the Bahamas. Back to the coast of Florida we head up the east coast to the Chesapeake Bay. From the Chesapeake we continue up the east coast through New York Harbour, up the Hudon River, and across the Erie Canal. Through a series of canals we go across Lake Ontario into Canada. We will spend a month in Canada. Back to the US, we will cross Lake Michigan to Chicago. Following the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, and Cumberland Rivers back to Tennesse.


LOOP CLOSED: 8/12/09: 310 days, 6170 miles, 107 locks, 3 countries, 16 states, 85 different marinas, 10,050 gallons of diesel fuel, thousands of photos, countless new friends, and priceless memories...

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Nassau

We arrived in Nassau today from Hope Town (about 100 miles). Little rough with the wind on our beam. Lynn's brother and Jorge will be joining us Saturday 4/25. Looks like we will be in Nassau about a week with the weather moving through. Then we will probably go to the Berrys, Bimini, and back to Florida.

Instead of bikes, like we have, this yacht at Atlantis has a Mini Cooper for local transportation, complete with a crane for lifting the car off the yacht.


Dinner at the Poop Deck....great views of the Marina. Very gusty here....we are getting use to rockin' and rollin' on the boat.


We took the ferry to Paradise Island and to Atlantis.....what a resort. The yachts were just beautiful.....fresh flowers, fully set tables and all the staff to keep them pristine....one helpful hint is to put your boat soap with a little water in a large squirt gun...with the hose and you have a new way to wash the boat....or rather have your help wash the boat.....what a great place for families to take the kids...all the pools and slides.


Just so colorful....we had to have a picture....On the way back to the marina....the tour guide on the ferry pointed out various homes of the stars...Nickolas Cage, the late Richard Harrison and many other rich and famous.

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