Mobile and Manhattan

What’s on the other side of the lock

Day 31 I think,  Saturday, 8/25/18

Wow, so much to say but will try to keep it short.  We are now anchored at Dog River Marina which is half way down Mobile Bay. We will stay here 2 nights then move to Turner Marine on Monday to have our mast put up again. We will probably stay there two nights also while Mark preps the mast, etc. I am just happy that I get to sleep in air conditioning for 4 nights!!

Turner Marine is where our mast is but they closed up at 4pm today, Saturday, and won’t open up until 8 am on Monday!  Ergo, we are next door where they are open every day! The marina guy, Eddie, is awesome and procured us a covered slip where as I write i am looking at a torrential rain on boats that are NOT in a covered slip. 🤣


Yesterday was a 10 1/2 hour day to our anchorage.  We realized that when we know we are going to anchor we just keeep motoring until the sun is closer to the horizon! Less time to sweat!  We actually get noticeably giddy when we know we will be hooking up to power to run our AC.

There are many interesting sights on the river.  We can see by the landscapes that we are moving south.  Today in the bay we had loads of dolphins which of course are hard to capture on a phone camera.  We also motored right by a water moccasin floating in the river a few days back.  We had never seen one and it was scary gross.  So long, and just looked at us as we drove by.  Mark wanted to turn around and get a pic but I said no, I could only imagine it lunging toward us,etc.

Now we are done with river ways and need to be concerned with tides!  We are beginning a new chapter to our adventure, traversing the Gulf of Mexico.

Now to the meaning of the title....We are in  Mobile and enjoying our celebratory Manhattans!

Now to the pics, (hopefully)

White sand hills.

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