Entering the Caloosahatchee River at Ft. Meyers the 26th of December, the multimillion dollars homes with million dollar yachts in their backyards, slowly transition to normal homes, vacant land, large commercial farms, with the occasional cow wadding alone the shore, to a moss hung wilderness. After the confines of the Intra Costal Waterway, the [...]

After watching TV programs like Miami Vice, you probably concluded that such nautical antics on the Intracoastal were pure Hollywood. The fact is; this is pretty much a slice of a normal day on the waterway. Spend any kind of time in this locale, and you’ll probably come to the conclusion, that the meaning of [...]

As the Sea Buoy is left astern, and the course locked into the autopilot, I plot a DR track across the chart to the entrance of the Anclote River (also called the Tarpon River) spaced at one-hour intervals, they measure an inch and a quarter apart, and are so numerous, that the passage of each [...]

The arrival at Mobile the morning of Nov.9th, brings a feeling of closer to the first section of the voyage. The city is very much a working port, and it is easy to find yourself Gunkholeing about the harbor. Mobile Bay is huge, and like the rest of the southern coast of the USA, you [...]

After a very miserable night spent on the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau Mo., the following morning dawns clear and bright. As a result of the past 24 hours having been near continuous rain, the river is running fast with an exceptional amount of flotsam and jetsam. Buoys act as snares for branches, logs and [...]

We pick up our story with Restless tied up to a barge in the river and Roland is about to settle in for the night. All of a sudden he is bathed in the spotlight of a tug and a deck hand appears on the bow of the tug and shouts out to [...]