Pelican Paddlewheel is the home base for E.L. (Gene) Smith and Judy Frow, two creatives who bought and restored a Louisiana Sternwheeler, sold (almost) everything and moved on board with their two cats, Toot and Sweet. Now moored at a nature-filled marina on West Bay, just north of Galveston, Smith and Frow spend their time writing, quilting, puttering, drinking coffee, petting the monsters, and enjoying the local wildlife, which includes coyotes, dolphins, alligators, bunny rabbits, turtles and great blue herons (not all at once of course)Both writers of poetry, books, plays and other assorted novelties, the pair owned an award-winning contract theater company specializing in "putting the tools of theater into the hands of business" Using theater as a means of communicating abstract and complex messaging, FROWbiz Productions forged Smith and Frow's unique writing voices.Ms. Frow is also an accomplished director, production manager and wrangles musicians, lawyers and other ne'er-do-wells in the Houston area. She also likes to make baby quilts, bake cookies and grow flowers on Pelican.Mr. Smith is a prolific tinkerer, wood-carver, cartoon drawer and general Mr. Fix-It. If you can break it, he can probably fix it.Toot and Sweet spend most of their days staring out the windows, napping and chasing lizards and dragonflies when they go "ashore."Pelican Paddlewheel was built in the early 1990's by the noted Louisiana barge designer Frank M. Crain for his family and has been lovingly refurbished by the two crazy people who thought it would be a good idea to live on a boat in their retirement. The jury is still out on that one....