SpaceX rocket streaking over the big dipper the hermit crab race begins Elvis the sand man enjoying some beach time with our Canadian friends from Atlas dingy floating on the turquoise waters other boats at anchor swinging upside down sunset at anchor learning some new tricks Aria in her new swing Aria and Aria swimming in the blue hole neat cave and cliff at the Blue Hole checking the waters at the Blue Hole The Blue Hole at Hoffmans Cay Aria jumping into the blue hole! Aria and Dad after swimming to the beach this school of blue fish circled Aria and I swimming back to the boat this school of blue fish circled Aria and I swimming back to the boat Aria on the beach a view of our boat on anchor with a mega yacht in the background more fish lots of little fish while swimming around the boat peace a thumbs up jump jumping into the water from the boat Aria hanging from the boat From the bilges of Moonbow all the way to The Bahamas, Thanks! first view of land coming into West End, also if you look closely a flying fish! a bright anchorage at West Plam Beach the night before we left and rain, happy to have these new very dry ports ugly conditions on the mooring ball very nice dingy dock calm evening at Jensen Beach weird cloud formation sailing along the sunet very well fortified Aria and Theone along the fort walls the courtyard of the fort cannons protecting the fort view of the inlet and anchorage at St. Augustine Theone and Aria at the fort orions belt while sailing downwind at night some industry across form Cumberland Island, very lit up at night buoy on our way out the inlet a sailboat coming in at sunset sunset on Cumberland Island leaving St Marys inlet neat ripply cloud sunset at anchor Lei Line at anchor sunset, time to get back to the boat kind of an unreal lookng tree paths through the trees more beach hiking only hide an go seek spot the things you find on beaches Aria on the beach far away horse on the beach Aria on the beach endless beach more wild horses view from the back view near the front entrance the Dungeness Ruins an armadillo! a wild horse in the forest path across the island beautiful spanish moss Aria in a tree logs on the beach picturesque hiking hiking around Cumberland Island a boat near us with Christmas lights more boats at anchor with St Marys in the background boats at anchor on a glass calm night in St. Marys St. Mary's anchorage at anchor in St. Mary's after 2 days of sailing Navy Tower R7, out in the North Atlantic another one we sailed between heading south larger cargo ships at anchor another shot just after the sun peaked below the horizon Cast Away (the sailboat) sailing into the setting sun underway into the sunset Sirens Call heading out the Georgetown Inlet Lei Line at the dock in Georgetown, everyone else had already left! lots of these floating plants moving up and down the creek with the tide beautiful looking trees along the creek up along the shore at anchor at anchor in Enterprise Crossing Calabash Seafood in Myrtle Beach along the ICW only one swing bridge today fishing boat coming in Little River Inlet Aria up the mast for a rigging check cool shot of our boat from up high! rudder re-installed and ready for splash sunset in the boat yard Theone up high Zigzag Gorilla! Aria easily handling the adventure park Theone conquering her fear of heights Aria ready for the adventure park presure washed looking better being hauled out, dirty bottom blue heron watching us sail by ferry going by, funny looking shot with the trucks powering into the wind docks along the ICW, with big lifts that look kind of funny at low tide Aria and Dad going for a swim in the big waves Aria in the ocean ocean spray Aria and Dad considering going for a swim Aria facing the waves big waves and pelicans playing in the surf Aria and Mom at Wrightsville Beach boat at the dock in Harbour Village Marina, looking pretty awkward in crusing mode a large fishing boat aground along the ICW downwind on the ICW Aria in the hammock chair at anchor in Morehead City under another bridge! Aria's dolphin face these two were playing swiming right up to the boat as we came into Beaufort dolphins! large fishing boats in port as we came through birds hanging out on the buoy markers erie but beautiful beautiful tall standing trees in the morning fog red hot sunset traveling south with the Canadian Geese ICW mile marker 115, we are aiming for marker 1064, a ways to go yet starting our way down the canal glassy calm motoring bald eagle keeping watch view at anchor on Alligator River in the morning a lonely dead tree one other boat with us at anchor sunset at anchor Alligator Bridge closing behind us leaving Coinjock fellow Canadians sailing the ICW under sail on the ICW the lifting bridge Lei Line at the docks free docks at Great Bridge barge passing by us in the early morning Phenoix, a boat we keep bumping into along our travel with a handsom green hull a broken ship interesting looking ship loader presumably neat tower interesting curvy bridge Belt Line Railroad Bridge going under the Belt Line Railroad Bridge one more large carrier the now functioning Belt Line Railroad Bridge cool looking crane impressive looking battleship and even more ship repair and more ships view of norfolk at night in our busy anchorage yet more ships in port getting work done ships under maintenance more ship work container ship port in norfolk large container ships going by dead ship tow going by while we keep well out of the way more neat navy vessels interesting looking planes overhead lots of ship work aircraft carrier at dock large ships in port at norfolk candy! Aria's creepy doll costume Aria and her pumpkin a skeleton spa Virgina Air and Space Science Center at night Carousel building, we could see it from our dock, but it was a 30 minute walk Nicely maintained carousel Aria on the carousel jet coming in for landing jet taking off from Langly AFB busy anchorage in Jackson Creek our sailing dingy on shore hiking back to the boat through the water she goes Aria before crossing the little inlet hiking the shore trail deer in the park hiking Hughlett Point Natural Area Preserve decorated shell tree Lei Line at anchor Lei Line at anchor Racoon tracks? Aria's school setup on the beach Aria dingying ashore one of the NOAA buoy's at the entrance to Potomac River view of NAS Pax River from the bay fighter jet, super loud! helicopter fly over touchdown coming in for landing shopping mall flyover on our way to the airport Aria enjoying the view fields from above I hope she knows what she is doing Aria doing some flying takeoff from the water Aria enjoying the view Gov. Thomas Johnson Bridge over the Patuxent River Research Center with oyster reefs (black lines in the water) Solomons Island from the north side Solomons Island Solomons Yachting Center where we are docked Solomons Island sailboat and our shadow sailboat coming into the Patuxent River Drum Point, where the lighthouse used to exist Cove Point Lighthouse LNG fueling station, we had sailed past on the way in Calvert Cliffs and the Nuclear Plant shoreline of the Chesapeake power lines from the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant catamaran at anchor touchdown on the creek before taking off again becoming a high speed motor boat on St Leonard Creek us after our flight! Petuxent River view of the Patuxent River Aria in the air our shadow after takeoff float plane at the airport Pelican diving for fish started seeing Pelicans here Theone trimming the spinnaker spinnaker sailing down the Chesapeake big moon rising perfectly calm sunset at anchor Aria resting her legs Java Farm ruins Java Farm ruins, neat fireplace arrangement Theone concentrating on rowing Geocache in hand doing some Hiking nice little beach at the park by Sheephead Bay sunset on anchor couldn't find a punmpkin pie, but we did find a pumpkin cheesecake Thanksgiving dinner Lighthouse off Thomas Point and the other side with maintenance going on this is a very long bridge going under the bridge, 186 foot clearance but it still looks close sunset at anchor horse farm at the anchorage Aria built me a nice dock for the dingy hanging out Aria in her new house a story of two sailboats me sailing the harbour Aria proving she can jump over this log blue heron watching us at the beach still pretty awkward, but getting much better Aria practicing on her new skates blue heron watching us at Rouges Harbour this is a natural gas pipeline, going over the canal more bridges, always like these suspension bridges first bridge along the C&D Canal tug on a very calm Delaware Bay Atlantic City at night, this picture isn't very good, but it was quite a light show on the water sunset with a crescent moon sunset going into the night contianer ship passing by container ships in port some traffic to look out for on AIS skyline leaving the city looks like a busy place! statue of liberty station island ferry, in a hurry manhattan helicopters ferry terminal one world trade center patriotic bridge one world trade center in the background bridges and buildings cool building facade again, more bridges more bridges interesting looking building impressve looking domino sugar building larger view of city with a red buoy larger view of city not sure how I feel about these buildings slightly miss aligned buildings UN Head Quarters stylish tall buildings Aria would prefer coke, but still cool impressively square UN building coming up on the UN Head Quarters sailing by endless city impressively tall building new york is a bit of everything more bridges impressive looking cancer center more bridges how does one graffiti these locations anyways? more bridges sailing towards NYC fire fighter training Aria looking wise heading towards NYC NYC prison barge, kind of weird, closed in 2023 plan coming in for landing skyline in the distance going under the first of many bridges training ship for the SUNY Maritime College sunset back at the boat advertising some people in times square Rockefeller Center St. Patrick's Cathedral times square sitting in times square choose your own m&ms skyline with sailboat distant New York City skyline hiking back at sunset hiking back at sunset ferry leaving Port Jefferson Aria in balance hiking on the beach at anchor in Port Jefferson Harbour channel on our way out haron watching us on the narrow channel out of Harry's Marina nice little cottage on the tip of Fisher Island lei line on the mooring ball, all the pilings are for docks which are taken out for the season beautiful little place we biked by with the most amazing chimney interesting green bodied bee burrowing in the dirt big fishing boat on buzzards bay big tug at end of canal rail lifting bridge, stays up unless a train is passing through us after coming under the bridge Sagamore Bridge Aria checking out the canal Sandwich Marina rain on Boston beautiful day, large waves (although they never show up in photos) Lighthouse near Kittery Fort Georges in portland Maine Yacht Center this hatch is on the wrong side another beautiful ship out sailing Fort Georges in Portland harbour beautiful tall ship watching the race fog rolling in behind us as we make our way to the anchorage seguin island covered in fog shortly after we left seguin island as we left view of the bay from shore the tram to bring goods up and down from the lighthouse hiking around the island direction markers in front of the light house lei line on a mooring in the bay at seguin island aria on the rocks at seguin island one of the thousand beautiful little places in the islands weather brewing in the distance davis island, everyone needs an island beautiful little places on benner island as we left burnt island a slightly foggy lighthouse owls head lighthouse leaving camden tall ship coming back into dock hiking downhill pretty steep grade hiking back down aria posing with the trolls view from mt battie enjoying the view all of us on the climb view of the camden harbour from our mountain hike tall ship while we were out for a day sail tall ships in the harbour view from the cottage in Maine aria enjoying some hammock time lei line at dock in the harbour (center) view of sailboats outside camden on our way in tall ship under sail love these trails built with log planks hiking in acadia park this is how aria poses for me every time I take a photo now stream on our hike in acadia park on our mooring ball at Isle au Haut in Maine our view at sea forwards our view at sea behind messy lines! underway in the morning pre sunrise before crossing the Gulf of Maine another boat at anchor fog rolling in lighthouse on mcnutts island view of the yacht club from the boat view of the docks at Shelburne Yacht Club rain begins theone enjoying the view aria posing for the camera view out the hatch while its raining view of carters beach dingy on the beach holding the sun sun god aria making a ritual circle not sure what I'm doing here aria on the run on shore at carters beach view of Lunenburg while leaving port boats on balls in front on Lunenburg Lunenburg at night the Bluenose II at dock view of Lunenburg from the boat Lunenburg with the Bluenose II coming into port coming into Lunenburg The Bluenose II sailing past us The Bluenose II dead ahead lighthouse on Cross Island near Lunenburg yacht we crossed paths with, under full sail, going along nicely aria with baby bell cheese wax fingernails sunset at the anchorage view of the boats at the RNSYS a line of J120's we were docked beside swing we found in a park during our long hike cool face carved on a tree halifax harbour view of the yacht club as we make our way into halifax harbour mom and aria on the beach rocky point at end of trail majestic seagull leeward sand beach hiking along the beach nice trail through the thick forest hiking back windward sand beach writing in the sand at anchor in shelter cove, behind the slightly larger (75 foot) boat school of minnows in the water hiking around shelter cove aria when she doesn't realize I'm taking a photo ac dc hiker foggy morning dingy in the fog at anchor evening fog near Tuffin Island evening fog near Tuffin Island and more more anchor shots lie line at anchor off Tuffin Island cable ferry in the fog towing the dingy, which has proved to be very easy to tow view behind us from the anchorage super calm waters around mount misery dinner on the barge lei line at anchor dingy on shore at anchor with the barge aria captured seconds before attempting to ruin a nice photo aria and mom hiking back down wet animal aria laying in the stream calmer part of the stream theone and aria on the hike up hiking up the stream cable ferry with mount misery in the background seals in louse harbour the morning we left taking a picture of aria taking a picture relaxing on the hill should be enjoying the view, but checking weather with cell service at top of hill more views this looks like easy hiking, but anywhere off the animal paths is knee to waste deep bramble quite the view from the top of the hill long hair can be a pain where's aria? climbing down the brook looks like this line has been here a while very dark fresh water lake stranded at high tide moonrise pitcher plants! resting in the moss hiking around the anchorage at anchor silly jump aria on a rock theone the centaur hiking through the bramble at anchor among the rocks at low tide dingy ashore beautiful anchorage the seal rock at anchorage looking ominous more stormy looking weather, that tankfully missed us weather brewing rugged coastline the town of Canso I really like these buoys that have large bells in them (for fog) Theone on the helm coming into anchor at little basin swing bridge closing behind us lots of these fake coyote's along the locks, presumably to deter the birds lighthouse and graveyard beside the lock large ship loading area adjacent the lock approach to the canso lock and swing bridge dead still wharf in Ballantyne's Cove fishing boats at night in Ballantyne's Cove foggy fishing wharf goofy aria streaming light watching the rain in the sunshine theone and aria in the rain aria running theone hiking the large ferry to PEI current on the water as we were coming into Caribou scenic beach views on PEI very cool beach structure aria at the beach shark sandal pei shoreline aria and mom at the beach in PEI a crab in the ocean Aria with Lucy Maud Montgomery the real green gables lego green gables on our way to charlottetown sunset while coming into charlottetown maybe hard to tell, but that is an aloha 32 sailing along pei looking very beautiful glassy water of PEI looking for dolphins very calm seas artsy anchor picture giant sailboat wake suspected dolphin confederation bridge aria! confederation bridge confederation bridge pillar expansion gaps, kind of scary looking but very necessary confederation bridge, bump in the middle is 60m clearance for big ships summerside swings the yacht club in summerside spinnakers landing spinnakers landing lighthouse on PEI as we rounded the point towards Summerside the lobster markers of which we saw many gale sail doing it's job theone looking happy before the squal hit bit of rain coming into PEI northern lights while under sail to PEI northern lights with the big dipper northern lights while sailing to PEI northern lights while sailing to PEI sunset under sail toward PEI sunset after crossing the Bay Chaleur neat landscape near piece rock pierce rock pierce rock another sailboat around pierce rock Piece Rock tip of the Gaspe northern gannts more rocky cliffs of the Gaspe Aria taking in the view tip of the Gaspe rocky cliffs of the Gaspe rocky cliffs of the Gaspe tip of the Gaspe lighthouse after coming out riviere-au-renard Cold beach Rivière-au-Renard Looking pretty scruffy Sailing from Rimouski to Rivière-au-Renard Aria cozy in to cockpit Theone on the helm Sailing from Rimouski to Rivière-au-Renard Sailing from Rimouski to Rivière-au-Renard Sailing from Rimouski to Rivière-au-Renard Sailing from Rimouski to Rivière-au-Renard Sailing from Rimouski to Rivière-au-Renard Rimouski marina submarine in Rimouski submarine in Rimouski on the docks in Rimouski coming up the coast to Rimouski spinnaker sailing beluga going under the boat! and more belugas more belugas at Tadoussac beluga coming towards the boat belugas at Tadoussac a lot of seals leaving Tadoussac Aria on top of the world! Aria finding a geocache Sailboat heading out of Saguenay River Aria running away from a photo Beautiful hiking paths Taking in the view View of Tadoussac Harbour View of Tadoussac Harbour Hike around Tadoussac View of the Saguenay In our birth in Tadoussac Pod of seals on our way to Tadoussac Sailing to Tadoussac Minke whale! Cap-à-l'Aigle marina from the hillside Aria playing in the waterfall Getting more remote Beach with marina breakwall Waterfall at Cap-à-l'Aigle Marina at Cap-à-l'Aigle Rain imminent Thunderstorm closer Thunderstorm on it's way Cargo ship at the edge of the fog More interesting terrain Lots of impressive looking churches Sailing down the St Larence Beautiful morning light Sunset? no Sunrise! Neat little boat sailing the bay in Quebec City Lift bridge at the Quebec City Marina Locking out of Quebec Marina Sailing Quebec City Blue Heron on our boat? Aria up the mast to install our radar refelector Passing cargo ships Trois Rivieres Under more bridges Passing cargo ships Sunset at anchor Planes! Container ship going by our anchorage Nice looking cargo ship Montreal industrial ports Fireworks at La Ronde Fireworks setup at La Ronde La Ronde Heading out of the final locks Sunset over La Ronde Sunset over La Ronde Sunset over La Ronde after transiting the final lock Last lift bridges before the last lock! Samuel De Champlain bridge in Montreal Neat bridge before the last lock Letting the big ships through before locking Big ships go through the locks first Clown graffiti while heading to the next lock Fleet of optimist dinghys at Pointe-Claire Theone's uncle Scott and aunt Luigia who hosted us at the Pointe-Claire yacht club A rare picture of all of us on the boat Us on a boat! Lei Line in crusing mode at Pointe-Claire Notre-Dame Basilica Cruise ship terminal in Montreal Leaving the lock Coming out of the lock after going down More lift bridge Under the lift bridge Lift bridge open Waiting for the lift bridge Feeding the ducks And, splash Aria jumping from the bow of the boat Current in the St Lawrence Snell lock opening Snell lock Descending the Snell lock Sitting at the top of the Snell lock before lowering View of Eisenhower lock after exiting Eisenhower lock opening Aria Fending off Moon at anchor outside Iroquois Locks Floating PT11 Sailing the PT11 Who goes first? Sailing with the big ships Underway (finally) Nested PT11 Stumped by easter clues Easter weirdos