Friday, November 14, 2008
Shuttle Launch From Atop Our HOuseboat!
A Most-unique experience as tonight we stood atop a houseboat on Lake Beresford (St. John's River near DeLand, FL) and watch Endeavour leap into the sky.
We are vacationing on a houseboat and climbed to the top deck to watch.
I shot the picture with my 6.1 Kodak....using night settings. (Click the pic to see the larger version!)
W-O-W!!!!
Duke
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We are vacationing on a houseboat and climbed to the top deck to watch.I shot the picture with my 6.1 Kodak....using night settings. (Click the pic to see the larger version!)
W-O-W!!!!
Duke
W-O-W!!!! A Launch!!!
We just had a superb experience.....A Launch of Endeavour from The Cape....We watched from the rooftop deck of our houseboat while located about 75 miles from Kennedy. I have some pics which I hope will turn out...I'll soon post.
Duke
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Duke
Thursday, November 13, 2008
St. John's River - Part 2
Now, some of us are dedicated fishermen!......Duchess was out the 2nd day in her bathrobe, fishing off the back deck of "Sturgeon", our vessel.....Still in her PJs.
Then we have a picture of "Duke", the Capt of Sturgeon.....At the helm, not shaving, and trying his best to look like Earnest Hemingway!!!!
OK!
So I am NOT Hemingway.....Who is!
We are having a ball, and pics will follow!
Duke
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Then we have a picture of "Duke", the Capt of Sturgeon.....At the helm, not shaving, and trying his best to look like Earnest Hemingway!!!!
OK!
So I am NOT Hemingway.....Who is!
We are having a ball, and pics will follow!
Duke
St. John's River
On the St. John's River....on a houseboat....out of Holly Bluff Marina in DeLand, Florida. Here is a pic of the shoreline of our 1st morning at 'Catfish Bend"....
Gorgeous, and here is our houseboat (actually a sister-ship). We are enjoying, and I'll have a lot more to send.
This is a marvelous week.
Duke
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Gorgeous, and here is our houseboat (actually a sister-ship). We are enjoying, and I'll have a lot more to send.
This is a marvelous week.
Duke
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Nother Trip....Nother Trip Mode!
This is an event we have wished for over at least three or four years.
We are going to depart next Sunday on a one-week houseboat trip. We launch at DeLand, Florida from Holly Hills Marina. We will be on a 45 foot houseboat. Duchess and I will be joined by a couple from our Elks Lodge and we will boat-fish-enjoy for our week which we actually had to book a year-plus in advance.
The two-bedroom, fully-equipt vessel will be ours for a 30-40 mile trip on the St. John's River. We tonight planned some menu items, and listed what we need to take for the successful voyage.
Our trip will begin Sunday with a class which will educate us to the controls and quirks of our vessel. I am to be Captain......after all I am a former Coxswain in the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Duchess and I had a 27 foot flybridge sportfisher. Now a larger vessel, but in MUCH calmer waters.
I'll post pics as we go......
Bon Voyage!
Duke
