Life Aboard a 40' DeFever Trawler
As the temperature gets cooler in Southwest Florida, our dock gets more social. Last Saturday evening, we had a dock party but before the dock party, we carved some pumpkins to get ready for Halloween. After the pumpkin carving, we got social with appetizers and … [Read more...] about Halloween on the docks
After we returned Monday from our weekend out on the mooring ball, my parents came into Snook Bight the following day, Tuesday. It was their anniversary, and since they were already on Fort Myers Beach, they decided to come to Snook Bight to stay a night and have a celebratory dinner at Bay Front … [Read more...] about Tamale dock party at Snook Bight
This past Wednesday, we had a dock party to celebrate the March birthdays in our marina. There were 3 we celebrated: Kathleen, Inga and John. We converged on D dock around 5pm while Tom and Bill shucked oysters. We each brought a dish or appetizer and enjoyed the evening entertainment. Kevin played … [Read more...] about Wednesday birthday dock party
I say "finally" because we are a couple of weeks late to the Mardi Gras party...it is pretty much over. But do we care? Um, not so much. We had our usual Sunday evening dock party today, but Mary Kay set the theme a Mardi Gras, complete with her homemade seafood gumbo and shucked oysters. I'm not … [Read more...] about Mardi Gras finally comes to Snook Bight
Ok, so I've been waaaayy too busy with work to even think about boat projects to post here, but...I do have a new techie toy (yay!). I recently acquired a wide angle lens for my Canon SLR. I decided to get the Canon EF-S 10-22mm (I have a crop sensor camera) to broaden my viewable area through the … [Read more...] about New toy! Playing around with my new wide angle lens
Last weekend was sort of eventful. Other than our day at Big Carlos Pass, we had 2 birthdays in our marina: Tom and Bill. Tom's birthday was actually last Friday, January 11th and Bill's was the following Friday…so, of course, we had to make it a weekend long event. A group of us decided to go … [Read more...] about A couple marina birthdays
