What is your Port-of-Call?

[LadyFish]

I noticed the "Show us your boat" thread come back up and realize there are members here from all over the world. What is your port-of-call?<br /><br />Our port-of-call is Galveston Island. Located off the Texas Gulf Coast about 80 miles south of Houston, Texas, USA.<br /><br />The island is 28 miles long and 3 miles wide at its widest point. The island is full of history.<br /><br />Galveston Island has been occupied since the early 1500's, serving as a home to Akokisa Indians (once thought to be the Karankawa Indians), the infamous pirate Jean Lafitte, "little Ellis Island," "the Wall Street of the Southwest," the richest city in Texas and the site of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. <br /><br />Galveston's prosperity was suddenly taken to a halt on September 8, 1900, when the deadliest natural disaster in United States history hit Galveston Island. A storm with winds over 120 miles per hour and tidal surge devastated the island and killed over 6,000 people. At the time of the 1900 storm, Galveston had a population of almost 38,000 and ranked fourth in the state. One-third of the city was completely destroyed. The bodies were weighted and buried at sea, but later washed ashore and were burned. The dead were uncovered at a rate of 70 per day for at least a month after the storm.<br /><br />The best part forme is from Galveston Bay you can watch the sun set. One mile in the other direction you can watch the sun rise over the Gulf of Mexico.<br /><br />I think its the world's best kept secret as far as a great place to drop anchor.<br /><br />More on Galveston <br /><br />What is your port-of-call?

 

[Ross J]

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Auckland, the Waitemata Harbour (means sparkling waters in Maori). Bueatifully highlighted by the massive Rangitoto Island that erupted just a few hundred years ago. The Waitemata is full of islands and it takes days to discover just a few of them.<br />Rangitoto gives the harbour lots of shelter so we enjoy boatable waters almost year round (except when the winds get up).<br />The harbour boundaries are land with housing all along the coast out to the Hauraki Gulf where the Pacific Ocean takes over.<br />There's over 1 million folk living and working in Auckland and to go out on the water and look back at the city is amazing. It seems so small to have so many people and it makes one feel very insignificant indeed.<br />I've fed my family fish from it's waters for over 35 years now and have never ever bought fish to eat in my life!!<br />I don't know what I'd do if I had to move from this bueat place!<br />Ross<br />

 

[mellowyellow]

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Oak Orchard River on Lake ontario, point breeze.<br />please post pics y'all. takes the chill of winter<br />for some of us <br /> http://www.lakeontario.org/

 

[Fly Rod]

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My port of call is Cape Ann, located in picturesque Gloucester, Masssachusetts,also the home port of the "Perfect Storm". Once known as the commercial fishing capital of the world. And is becoming noted for one of the best places to recreational fish in the north east. It is an island, connected by two bridges with a population of about 30,000 just 36 miles north of Boston.

 

[Luna Sea]

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Hmmm,<br /><br />Sounds like a nice place Fly Rod. I'll have to go there sometime..........

 

[mellowyellow]

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geeze Ross.... how we gonna compete with that?<br />pretty soon you'll B postin pics of sweet young<br />shiela's... <br />good on ya mate!

 

[snapperbait]

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Port of Palm Beach most the time.. Not much to see, just condos and freighter traffic.. Peanut island inside the port was nice till they tore it up..<br />

<br /><br />I also go out of Jupiter inlet.. Nasty inlet when it's rough.. The lighthouse is beautiful, especially at night..<br />

 

[gonfishn]

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Lets see my port of calln could be behind a tree or in an outhouse or even in a field if no one is around...Oh I'm sorry you were talkn about port of call. My bad..

 

[LadyFish]

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gonefishn you must have thought I said

"pot-of-call".

 

[gonfishn]

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(sp) please Laddyfish..

 

[mellowyellow]

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http://www.paddling.net/places/showReport.html?36 <br /> http://www.orleansny.com/Tourism/oakorchrd.htm

 

[KennyKenCan]

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My home port is called " Vanderbilt's Wharf ", located on the Connetquot River, Long Island NY, shown here behind my truck.<br /><br />

<br /><br />The marina was William K. Vanderbilt's marina for his summer home called "Idle Hour", which is now the campus of Dowling College.<br /><br />The area became famous for all the " Rum Running " around here during prohibition.<br /><br />This is a photo of the mansion.<br /><br />

<br /><br />Long Island is the largest off-shore island in the continental United States, 126 miles long, 20 miles wide at it's widest point, is located in the Atlantic Ocean, east of New York City and south of Connecticut, and shaped like a fish , is rich in early American history dating back to about 1525 AD, and has a population of about 3.5 million people.<br /><br />

<br /><br />Long Island has a barrier beach protecting it's southern exposure to the Atlantic, called Fire Island, which for the most part, is accessable only by ferry or private boat.<br /><br />Prior to Ellis Island opening in NYC, as the gateway to America, all immigrants were processed through the immigration station located in Camp Hero, Montauk, which is located at the tip of the most southeasterly fork of the island.<br /><br />Montauk is also the site of the first public works project in the U.S., that was commisioned around 1796 by President Geo. Washington, to construct the Montauk Lighthouse, which still pecariously stands today on it's bluff.<br /><br />

<br /><br />Montauk also holds the record for the largest "Great White Shark" caught in the world, 3,450lbs caught by D o n B r a d d i c k , Montauk, NY on 08/06/86 .<br /><br />I could go on and on, but I'll conclude it here, before I get carried away!

 

[mellowyellow]

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add a pic KKC... sounds really nice

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Well I guess you would have to call mine Ashland, Ky. on the Ohio river.<br />It has one boat ramp and that is where I put in so I guess that is my put-in-call.

 

[andrewkafp]

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I cannot tell a lie.. T'was I that both started the "Show us yer boat" thread 2003 and also done bumped it up a couple of times. This is because I live in Melbourne Australia and I am very interested in what sort of boats you guys have in other lands. My p.o.c is Port Phillip Bay (Salt water)app 2000sq km ranging between 10-20ft to about 80ft deep with unpredictable conditions.<br /> http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1park_display.cfm?park=58

 

[Fly Rod]

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Luna Sea !!<br />How ya doing ??Do ya keep your boat at the marina by the Salem bridge ? Nice view of Bakers Island when you look out towards the sea.<br />Drove by there the other day going over to h&h propeller. Notice a couple of barges. Are they dredging the channel ?

 

[JasonJ]

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Sandpoint, Idaho. I live on Lake Pend o'rielle, roughly 45,000 square acres, about 44 miles long, 1200 feet deep. There is a Naval base here that tests submersibles and other stuff. It is a tourist community, with a ski resort 9 miles away. No rain in the summer, kinda cold in the winter, and with a population of about 6000 people, I don't deal with the city crap. Sandpoint was voted number one place to live in western US by Sunset Magazine,(not that I read that magazine, its just what I know).

 

[JGREGORY]

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I suppose my port-of-call would be Great Bay, NJ I suppose the biggest town would be Tukerton, NJ which has some interesting history. One thing I find really interesting is this tidbit.<br /><br />

Tuckerton Wireless Station was constructed by a German company in 1912, completed in 1914. Its tower originally extended 850 feet above the meadows. It was used by the Navy during World War I. In 1920 it was bought by the Radio Corporation of America and eventually sold to a developer. <br />

This tower must have been really something because you can still see the Footings and support footings for the guide wires. The tower footings are the size of a small cottage. The Corp of Enginneers tried to Dynamite them back in the 40's with no luck.

 

[BrianFD]

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My usual port-of-call is Buckeye Lake. We try to make a trip every year down to Lake Cumberland, Ky. We've traveled both inside & out of Ohio: Deer Creek, Alum Creek, Caesar Creek (all in OH), Lake Erie (but haven't been out past Middle Bass Is), Grayson Lake (KY), and last year, a day trip to Brookeville Lake (IN). Since the kids have moved on, and retirement's in sight (a LONG 5 yrs away), we're making plans to get more sights seen and do some river runs (i.e., Marietta to Pittsburgh for starters).

 

[KeltonKrew]

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I'm with ya LadyFish...Galveston...Other's just don't know what there missin'