After spending the weekend with my mom, grandma and uncle, Adam and I returned to the boat to find a hungry cat and an unbelievable sunset. We walked across the street to Hollywood Beach to witness the result of a week of Santa Ana winds blowing smog, dirt and dust from the mainland off shore.…
After two weeks, we’ve left Santa Barbara and our heading back to Catalina, where our trip started two months ago. Here are some final pics from Santa Barbara and the first leg of our trip to Catalina – with a stop back in Oxnard.
Hello loyal and occasional blog readers, after a couple of weeks of dead air and unexpected change, we’re back (!), this time out of the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard. Here’s a quick recap of the last two weeks: While in Cat Harbor, I got a call about a job interview and scheduled a ferry …
Every night, I write in my Log – which is just a cooler (not to mention more nautical) way of referring to my journal. I started the log several months ago in a desire to track my time and document my accomplishments – which is a big word for any little thing that I manage…
You know when you’re in a completely empty movie theater or bus and then some jackass sits right next to you – and they’re not doing it for funny?! Well, the anchoring equivalent of that happened to us in Little Harbor the other day and I’m still reeling, even though we’ve since relocated to Cat…
We’ve moved the boat to a nice little protected anchorage down from Cat Harbor called Little Harbor (adjacent to Shark Harbor, where you don’t see a lot of swimmers). According to a coffee mug I saw for sale in the Two Harbors General Store, “the west end is the best end” – and mugs don’t…
Here are some pics of a hike we went on the other day, from Two Harbors up the Trans Catalina Trail. As the title would suggest, this trail goes all the way from one end of the island to the other. Our hike started in the Isthmus Cove and went midway to Little Harbor before…
Alternate Title: “Well, ya got trouble, with a capital ‘T’ and that rhymes with ‘B’ and that stands for ‘bees’. which is why I went with the other one.. Despite the inviting water, the warm sun and the cool breeze, I’ve begrudgingly spent the last couple of days running from yellow jackets and sitting at…
Saturday, Sept 11, 2am We woke up to sounds we never heard at the Marriott Marina at 2:00 in the morning, fishermen cracking open energy drinks and talking loudly, getting ready to head out to sea in their fishing boats. We started getting ourselves ready too, putting on warm clothes, closing all the hatches and…
We’re here!! After several months of planning, list making, repairs, provisioning (nautical term) and imagining, last Friday we tied up loose ends at the Marriott Marina, and said goodbye to Slip B33, Grand Slam’s home for the past 12 years. The Catalina plan was an idea we’d been toying around with for a while. We…
Adam and Molly Go 