ZippySails

Vessel Name: Zipporah
05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
04 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
03 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
03 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
03 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
03 April 2021 | Canyon Lands National Park, Utah
30 March 2021 | Canyon lands National Park, Utah
30 March 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
30 March 2021 | Canyonlands National Forest, Utah
30 March 2021 | Moab, Utah
30 March 2021 | Moab, Utah
29 March 2021 | Moab, Utah
29 March 2021 | White Rim Trail, Utah
29 March 2021 | White Rim Trail, Utah
29 March 2021 | White Rim Trail, Utah
29 March 2021 | White Rim Trail
29 March 2021 | White Rim Trail, Utah
29 March 2021 | White Rim Trail, Utah
Recent Blog Posts
05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

What Survives!

The Twisted Trees are lone survivors out here. Do they ever rot, someday maybe. They are fascinating the way they get twisted up from the wind.

05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Off To Climb

Those sheer walls in the distance are their destination!

05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

The Seclusion

We found some!!! Seclusion that is. So far my experience in the Canyonlands has been different than I expected. The vastness, the beauty, that's all been inline with what I thought but I was expecting to be off more in the wilderness, away from the people. Even though the park is pretty unknown in the [...]

04 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

The Confluence

The Historic Point of destination today led us to the Confluence where the Green river from and the Colorado river from Colorado meet in the center of the Canyonlands and join to be the Colorado river which runs through the Grand Canyon in Arizona. This ten mile round trip hike was said to be over flat [...]

03 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

The Hoodoos

The majority of the Needles area of the park is covered in rock formations called the Hoodoos, An overview here shows these mushroom looking structures. The needles are condensed in one dense section but the Hoodoos sprawl out to cover the rest of the Needles section of the park.

03 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah

The Way Out

Now there is a staircase for you!

Wrapping it up

21 September 2014 | Waterford
Mary
I remember when I was a kid I learned a song about the Erie Canal that I sang over and over. I thought it was a magical place. I think I may have done a tap dance routine to it. Now I can say I have gone down the Erie Canal. We went through the last lock today, actually the last 5 which need to be done in a row. They call them the flight, reminded me of the Welland Canal with such a great elevation change from beginning to end. These are the largest drop in the shortest distance in the world. At the end was Waterford where we stayed overnight. The visitor center was a very friendly place with more free dockage and other services. Everything a person could need, internet, shower, pumpout, water, a book library, even a farmers market on Sunday. We walked up to a nearby church and once again enjoyed the company of welcoming folks. They call us passerbys the "boat people". They get quite a few of them. With an invitation for coffee and snacks afterwards we always meet the friendliest people. We are still loving our little bikes, they are invaluable. We took a 6 mile bike ride to a West Marine store today for a replacement water pump, with their little tires it proved to be a good workout but it is good to know they can take us a distance if needed. We will stay another two nights here to get laundry done and do some planning for the next phase. We are taking this journey a step at a time, too overwhelming to try to learn it all at once. We are glad to be one step further to sailing this boat again in open waters. A bystander took a picture of us in the last lock and emailed it to us, so here we are accomplished boat handlers in the lock. I think I hear Doug calling my name for another game of scrabble tonight. Anybody want to put a bet on who wins, better yet anyone want to fly here and take him on? I know I shouldn't complain, it's a rough life.
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