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It’s very cool that Tara’s Gallery has the theme of Celebration today.
Today is our very good friend M’s birthday. He’s 10!!!!
M’s family stayed with us in July and we helped celebrate his big sister becoming a teenager.
To celebrate, we rented a Duffy for a couple of hours and left my boys and M behind. Boys [...]
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The Newport Harbor sea lions have been wintering in walmer climes and are now heading back to their luxury sailboats. Woe betide anyone who hasn’t made preparations for their return. The sea lions are ruthless and once they’ve made a decision to set up home on your boat, there’s nothing you can do to stop [...]
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We do. We live in the middle of chaos. On Friday and Saturday nights, parties rage, music thumps, groups of people on bicycles cruise by looking for parties to attend. We moved here from a quiet English village. A village so small, there was no street lighting, at night it was pitch black and a [...]
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Shock Cousteau, Cutty Spark, Spark N Ride and Amply Endowed are some of my favourite electrically inspired names Duffy owners create for their boats.
Newport Harbor is home to the Duffy Electric Boat. They’re unique boats with an awning on top used mainly for cruising around the harbor in a very civilized manner, drinking cocktails, eating [...]
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A number of people asked me about the sea lions featured in the post below and how on earth do you get them off your boat? Well, during another trip out in the harbor this weekend, we found out.
They don’t like being squirted with water and not only do boat owners use this technique to [...]
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The sea lions of Newport Harbor have been causing a few problems of late. The harbor is filled with luxury yachts and cruisers. It’s one of the biggest harbors in the US and great to people watch, but it’s the sea lions that provide the most entertainment.
The sea lions take no notice of the cost [...]
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