Molly’s Great American Loop

Maret - Juni 2024

We’re Betty & James, along with Luna cat and Moki dog we are cruising the Great American Loop aboard our boat the Molly Brown. She is a 24’ C-Dory TomCat. We expect it will take us 8 or so months to complete 😀. Baca selengkapnya

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- 16 Mar 2024, 20.21
- ☁️ 73 °F
- Ketinggian: 20 ft
- Amerika Serikat Florida Brevard County Evans Pines Middle Banks 27.933804, -80.5038327°56’2” N 80°30’14” W
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Hari 6
Honest John’s Fish Camp
16 Maret, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
Had an easy cruise day making our way to Honest John’s Fish Camp where we are visiting with Jonathan and Rosa and staying on their dock. They have a young lab so Moki got some good running in. I was pretty lax on taking pics today so will try better tomorrow. Edit* more pics added. Rosa was working so missed getting one of her. Off to Merritt Island.Baca selengkapnya
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Magnifique photos..... Le bonheur parfait..... On se réjouis de voir la suite..... Bonne journée les amis 🥰😘😘 [JeanMi]
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Pelancong Nice place for the night.
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Pelancong One of my favorite places in Florida.
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Pelancong They are super hosts
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Pelancong Molly’s Great American Loop
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- 17 Mar 2024, 18.24
- ⛅ 79 °F
- Ketinggian: 3 ft
- Amerika Serikat Florida Volusia County Oak Hill Association Mobile Home Park 28.847651, -80.82172428°50’52” N 80°49’18” W
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Hari 7
South Dredge Island
17 Maret, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
Long day 73 miles. This was after we tried to access a trail on Merritt Island but it was too shallow and we had to push. Stopped at the boat ramp going thru Haulover Canal and witnessed manatees mating. And then found a great spoil island to ride out the next couple days of windy weather. Oh and Sundays are lounge days with the dinette down and Benny Goodman on Pandora. A tribute to my dad. Imagine our surprise when Bob Crosby ‘Loopin the Loop’ played. Weather was nice for cruising . Overall great day!Baca selengkapnya
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Pelancong What a handsome boy
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Pelancong He misses Frida
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✨Le Bonheur Parfait ✨ Ont aiment bien voir toutes ces photos et vous voir heureux comme ça 😊😉... 👍🥂🙋🏻‍♂️😘😘 [Jeanmi & Dom]
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Pelancong Thank you! We are having quite the adventure!!
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Pelancong Molly’s Great American Loop
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- 18 Mar 2024, 07.34
- ☁️ 68 °F
- Ketinggian: 3 ft
- Amerika Serikat Florida Volusia County Oak Hill Association Mobile Home Park 28.847728, -80.8221828°50’52” N 80°49’20” W
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Hari 8
Zero mile day
18 Maret, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F
Today and tomorrow are down days. It’s blowing pretty good so we got a good test of our new anchor and 8 plait anchor chain splice. Today was also the last warm (relative) day for a while so when I broke for lunch we hopped in the water. By 5 when I shut my laptop it was noticeably cooler. 50 for a low tonight and high tomorrow 62 w 15-25 winds. No sunset tonight but our sunrise this morning was quite nice. Getting a good kayak workout in.Baca selengkapnya
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Pelancong Good to see your pumping the brakes! Looks like a great island to chill. Very nice.
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Pelancong Beautiful
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Greetings from the PNW. We just purchased a Tomcat 255 and hope to trailer to the East Coast to do the loop...same as you! Btw, what brand of inflatable kayaks are you using...we like that they're completely open :) [Richard and Gwen Sot]
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Pelancong Hi Richard & Gwen! We eyed doing the loop for quite awhile and are really looking forward to exploring lots of new places! The kayaks are by Bote. They are very stable and double as stand up paperboards. They also have a seat back but we rarely use it. They have been a great investment. We get allot of use out of them. Enjoy your new TomCat! Ours is 22 years young and we’ve had her all along. She’s a great boat!
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- 19 Mar 2024, 20.21
- 🌙 57 °F
- Ketinggian: 3 ft
- Amerika Serikat Florida Volusia County Oak Hill Association Mobile Home Park 28.847557, -80.82186928°50’51” N 80°49’19” W
Hari 9
New artificial reef
19 Maret, Amerika Serikat ⋅ 🌙 57 °F
Well this morning on one cup of coffee I paddled Moki to shore. Took some pictures and paddled back. Somewhere between shore and the boat now lies my phone. New one ordered. So your picture tonight is our coffee pot from James phone. Winds have calmed and it’s quite nice. We head north again tomorrow.

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Pelancong That's why you didn't answer my tx. Lol. Thought we'd see you go past but we leave Thursday.
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Pelancong Yeah it was a real bummer. We will get in St. Augustine sometime Thursday. Safe travels!!
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Pelancong We are camping near the Halifax River. May actually see you pass by today. I'll keep an eye on your travels. Be safe
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Pelancong Are you at Tomoka State Park?
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Pelancong Molly’s Great American Loop
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- 20 Mar 2024, 20.16
- 🌙 61 °F
- Ketinggian: 20 ft
- Amerika Serikat Florida Flagler County Marineland 29.659418, -81.21984329°39’34” N 81°13’11” W
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Hari 10
Marineland
20 Maret, Amerika Serikat ⋅ 🌙 61 °F
We had a long travel day and I had a busy work day so it went by fast for me. I’m sure slower for the captain. We’re now anchored in a cove off the ICW just south of Marineland. It’s pretty shallow outside of the channel pretty much everywhere here but we lucked out with a spot that has good protection and enough water.Baca selengkapnya
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Very nice 😍 [JeanMi🇨🇭]
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Pelancong Great Blog. Wonderful genre for your travels! I love your photography. I forwarded the article to a friend who is Prof. Emeritus at Duke in Botany/Oceanography and speciality of Sea Weeds. (Prof. Rick Searles). I am sending them a link to the piece and your blog). You are meeting some of our favorite C Dory people along the way. We will look forward to seeing you in about 7 months at our dock in upper Perdido Bay
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Pelancong Thank you!! We’re really enjoying our travels and I really like this app. It’s easy which I needed since I’m still a worker bee on the boat. And yes seeing dory friends is really special. Your dock is on our radar.
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- 22 Mar 2024, 06.46
- 🌧 64 °F
- Ketinggian: Permukaan laut
- Amerika Serikat Florida Saint Johns County Saint Augustine City of Saint Augustine Municipal Marina 29.891495, -81.30971529°53’29” N 81°18’35” W
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Hari 12
St. Augustine
22 Maret, Amerika Serikat ⋅ 🌧 64 °F
We’re tied up at the municipal marina till Saturday. My new phone arrived and I’m sort of set up. Forgot my iCloud password and am locked out 😡. But I can make calls and take pictures. Of course all this happened late so although I walked around yesterday no pics of those travels. But here you can see the spectacular blue lights James added to the back of hull and the torches I bought in the 11th hour before we left. It’s raining and our new sun/shade fly is great. Hatch and center window wide open and we’re dry inside 👍. Also adding a couple photos my friends Craig and Cindy took of us passing Gamble Roger’s State Park where they were camping and the Nao Trinidad Tall Ship here at the marina (it’s a floating museum). Today is domestic duties followed by sightseeing.Baca selengkapnya
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Pelancong The blue lights are pretty
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Pelancong They’re a nice touch
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Pelancong Wow
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Pelancong Molly’s Great American Loop
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- 22 Mar 2024, 16.14
- ☁️ 70 °F
- Ketinggian: 43 ft
- Amerika Serikat Florida Saint Johns County Saint Augustine Lightner Museum 29.891792, -81.31420129°53’30” N 81°18’51” W
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Hari 12
St. Augustine day 2
22 Maret, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F
Got a nice stroll around St Augustine. First walk with Moki we got poured on but had a good time. James came out for round 2 and then of course because there’s a dog onboard there was a round 3. St Augustine is going to miss Moki. He was quite a hit around town. Reprovisioned and laundry is done. Tomorrow we’re on the move again.Baca selengkapnya
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Pelancong Beautiful Moki
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Pelancong St. Augustine is going to miss him. Every time we go for a walk someone remembers him from earlier walks.
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I love the histrionic district, glad you had a nice time there [Irene Owens-Sharrett]
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Pelancong Me too. Love the architecture. Allot of history
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- 24 Mar 2024
- 🌬 64 °F
- Ketinggian: 16 ft
- Amerika Serikat Florida Duval County Admiral's Walk Mobile Home Estates Pine Island 30.335745, -81.43410530°20’9” N 81°26’3” W
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Dutton Island Preserve
24 Maret, Amerika Serikat ⋅ 🌬 64 °F
We are now at anchor till Monday off Dutton Island Preserve a small park with a kayak launch, fishing piers, a nature trail and eight very nice tent campsites. Winds today (Sunday) are north 20-30 gusts to 40.Baca selengkapnya
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Pelancong I recognize that place. I hope the winds die soon and you can get back to boating.
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Pelancong We love this place. Found it in 2021 on our travels. Great hidey hole. Wind are out of the east today so we can continue north.
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Pelancong Looks like some good "exploring" and the right time of year to be there!
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Pelancong Yes! Although our first day here before the rain, wind and temperature drop there were plenty of no see ems. But now it’s really nice.
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- 25 Mar 2024, 14.14
- ☁️ 66 °F
- Ketinggian: 49 ft
- Amerika Serikat Georgia Camden County St. Marys North River 30.732786, -81.53928430°43’58” N 81°32’21” W
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St. Marys
25 Maret, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
Welcome to the Peach State! It was a rough day. The wind did not shift directions as predicted. We were on target to make it to Cumberland Island by 2pm but It was a busy work day and with water going over the bow (and the roof) at 12:30 we had to detour. The Coast Guard also had boating pretty much stopped at the pass for a tow to come in with a boat taking on water. Took one of the many tributaries of the St. Marys River which was still rough but not as bad. We are now tied up to a city boat ramp with fingers crossed no one forces us to leave. Guy from Massachusetts in parking lot with the same intention. Today’s casualties were the AGLCA burgee (MIA) and a rip in the plastic on one of the side curtains on the back canvas. Once we get north of Cumberland Island we will be in virgin territory.Baca selengkapnya
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Pelancong We had a nice night on the dock. Met a local who launched right before we headed off to bed. He was fishing a black drum tournament and taking advantage of the full moon. Told us no one would bother us. Heard him come back in about 1am. Otherwise nice and quiet.
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- 26 Mar 2024, 11.32
- ☁️ 70 °F
- Ketinggian: 121 ft
- Amerika Serikat Georgia Camden County Dungeness 30.758888, -81.47136730°45’32” N 81°28’17” W
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Cumberland Island
26 Maret, Amerika Serikat ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F
Left St Marys early and headed over to Cumberland Island. Winds and waves are way down and it’s actually a really nice day. Moki and I did quite the hike while James and Luna entertained park rangers and guests at the landing (but did he take any pictures… no!). We got a lot of walking in and never did make it to the beach but that’s ok as I made it there on our last trip. We did find more that we missed on our 2021 trip here.Baca selengkapnya
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