11/19/11 - 11/30/11 We left Dog River Marina and completed the Great Loop at 11:30 in southern Mobile Bay. We toasted with coffee and changed the burgee (the small flag on the bow) to our gold looper flag signifying that we had completed the Great Loop. Now all we had to do was go 600 miles west to home. We crossed Mississippi Sound in two days anchoring at Cat Island and Rabbit Island Louisiana. We crossed the Mississippi River with it's two locks and headed for Houma Louisiana City Dock. This stretch of the Inter-coastal Canal is flat and swampy with few turns and long straight waterways. We traveled several more days through Morgan City, Port Arthur, and finally into Offats Bayou in southern Galveston Bay. We had a very fortunate weather window and made it up the length of the bay amid heavy ship traffic and into Seabrook Marina on November 30. In ten and a half months we had traveled 7251 miles. We had a great feeling of accomplishment but I was ready for a change back to hard ground. Lace wanted to stay on the boat and never go home. Of course we did go home and even now are working on a staggering to-do list. We don't know what we'll do with the boat. What we do know is that we are going to stay close for another year and then maybe we'll do it all again. There will still be a lot to see: Padre Island, the Bahamas, the Florida Keys, and lots of places in Canada that we missed. For right now it's good to be home!
11/19/11 - 11/30/11 We left Dog River Marina and completed the Great Loop at 11:30 in southern Mobile Bay. We toasted with coffee and changed the burgee (the small flag on the bow) to our gold looper flag signifying that we had completed the Great Loop. Now all we had to do was go 600 miles west to home. We crossed Mississippi Sound in two days anchoring at Cat Island and Rabbit Island Louisiana. We crossed the Mississippi River with it's two locks and headed for Houma Louisiana City Dock. This stretch of the Inter-coastal Canal is flat and swampy with few turns and long straight waterways. We traveled several more days through Morgan City, Port Arthur, and finally into Offats Bayou in southern Galveston Bay. We had a very fortunate weather window and made it up the length of the bay amid heavy ship traffic and into Seabrook Marina on November 30. In ten and a half months we had traveled 7251 miles. We had a great feeling of accomplishment but I was ready for a change back to hard ground. Lace wanted to stay on the boat and never go home. Of course we did go home and even now are working on a staggering to-do list. We don't know what we'll do with the boat. What we do know is that we are going to stay close for another year and then maybe we'll do it all again. There will still be a lot to see: Padre Island, the Bahamas, the Florida Keys, and lots of places in Canada that we missed. For right now it's good to be home!
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