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We have enjoyed watching porpoises for the past few days, but this is the first time that three of them swam along right next to the boat for an extended period.  Gave me time to find the camera and snap a few pictures of them.
We arrived at C…

We had our friends, Jill and Rudy over for dinner last night.  Notice the tennis court on TV.  We had a great evening of bowling and tennis on the Wii.

Just had to show one  more picture of our new addition to the crew.  She is re…

Larry took the opportunity to put the dinghy into the water and get it running properly.

This boat is reputed to be one used in a James Bond movie.

From the front, it looks kind of mean.

This is “Baby”,  a very friendly heron.  She g…

The morning start out with crappy weather, but improved as the day went on.  We ran about 5 1/2 hours to Panama City.  Tied up at “Rudy’s dock”.  I knew of Rudy from “Trawlers and Trawlering”, a website that I check daily.  It was g…

What to do on a rainy night?  Take a snooze while Dottie watches “Dancing with the stars”.  Our new kitty is working out very well.  She doesn’t get seasick and has learned to use her litter pan already.  We are presently anchored i…

Headed into our anchorage for the night.  Beautiful sand beaches.  We are between Pensacola and Ft. Walton Beach.

 Just over the sand dunes is the Gulf.  Notice the palm trees and the large powered kite in the background.

Sunset…

 In the middle of Mobile Bay we are now seeing shrimp boats instead of tugboats and tows.  This view is looking out over the Gulf.
 Here is an expensive way to get to port.  Three ocean going tugboats towing an ocean freighter into …

 Finally, we got all upgrades and repairs done.  We depart tomorrow.  For our last evening there, we invited Larry Brown from “Cigano” to join us for dinner.  He agreed to bring along his git-fiddle to do some harmonizing after dinn…

 Living “on the hard” isn’t easy.  We spent 3 days living on the boat while it was “up on blocks”.  Our boarding ladder got substantially longer.  After the mechanics pulled the prop, they checked shaft runout and decided it was sli…

We decided to have our boat hauled because it needs a little work.
 Seriously, we did have it hauled to fix a prop that got damaged while we were trying to get into an anchorage on the Tenn-Tom.  Look at the “mustache” that built up on the …