Day 50
50 days on the river! 52 without jobs! We both are anxious to get to Tampa. We booked our flights back home now that we know that we are getting near. We wanted to make sure that we had enough allowance for bad weather, especially crossing the gulf. We will be back on December 27th. We haven’t defined our exact plans yet, but it looks like we will be in the cities until Friday, then Eau Claire after that. Not quite sure what day we will head back to Tampa. Maybe on the 2nd or 3rd of Jan. The water really calmed down yesterday evening and night. It will be smooth sailing today. No waves to rock us.
We left today at 9:30. We are shooting for an anchorage called Big Lagoon. This is the first day that Grant gets to use the GPS. It works pretty slick for the price paid. Now we know the exact mileage per hour and distance traveled. It also gives us the amount of miles left to our destination. Tabbie spent part of the time upstairs with Grant as we navigated the way through Mobile bay. Surprisingly the bay was extremely calm, so much so that the water was like glass in parts, which is strange since it is so large (about 40 miles long). After about an hour Tabbie took her mandatory nap. Later in the day she drove and as we were passing through a larger part of the waterway she saw some dolphins! Throughout the day we would continue to see more and more surface for air. We assume that they like it in the waterway because it is shallow and warmer. We also saw numerous pelicans dive-bombing the water for fish. They don’t graciously scoop the water like gulls or other birds, they head beak first with a big splash. It is quite the sight. Grant was able to get close enough a couple times to see the fish struggling in the pelican’s pouch and then swallow it down. It looked similar to a small snake swallowing a rodent that is larger than its body!!
We ended up anchoring out with some of our friends that were in Demopolis with us. Sea Angel, Angel and Water Ark were also in the anchor spot. They are slower going than us, and even with us stopping at Mobile for a day, they were still going non-stop. They had been anchoring out since Demopolis.
We left today at 9:30. We are shooting for an anchorage called Big Lagoon. This is the first day that Grant gets to use the GPS. It works pretty slick for the price paid. Now we know the exact mileage per hour and distance traveled. It also gives us the amount of miles left to our destination. Tabbie spent part of the time upstairs with Grant as we navigated the way through Mobile bay. Surprisingly the bay was extremely calm, so much so that the water was like glass in parts, which is strange since it is so large (about 40 miles long). After about an hour Tabbie took her mandatory nap. Later in the day she drove and as we were passing through a larger part of the waterway she saw some dolphins! Throughout the day we would continue to see more and more surface for air. We assume that they like it in the waterway because it is shallow and warmer. We also saw numerous pelicans dive-bombing the water for fish. They don’t graciously scoop the water like gulls or other birds, they head beak first with a big splash. It is quite the sight. Grant was able to get close enough a couple times to see the fish struggling in the pelican’s pouch and then swallow it down. It looked similar to a small snake swallowing a rodent that is larger than its body!!
We ended up anchoring out with some of our friends that were in Demopolis with us. Sea Angel, Angel and Water Ark were also in the anchor spot. They are slower going than us, and even with us stopping at Mobile for a day, they were still going non-stop. They had been anchoring out since Demopolis.
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