Blow, Blow, Blow your boat, violently on the dock.....

Day 47 Monday 8/10

It’s been 8 days since my last blog and so much to tell.  I’m going to blog two posts so they don’t get so lengthy.  First of all, we DID get a direct hit from Gordon!  I learned a new phrase from my friends at Perdido,  “East is the Beast”, which applies to the fierceness of hurricanes.  Envision the counter clockwise spiraling of a storm and you can see if you’re on the east side/right side you get hammered the most!
We were on the east side.   Everyone on the docks double tied lines, every which way, strapped or removed biminies(autocorrect changed it to bikinis which Mark wanted me to tell ya all) and closely watched any tide fluctuations. Our neighbors came out in the storm to help us retie, since we were rubbing on the piling. We all came out fine! Part of me wanted it to be 5 mph stronger so I could say “I was in my boat during a hurricane!  (Picture/video on next post)

Miraculously we were on our way 2 days later.  Next stop was Destin, Florida. Then on to Panama City. First day on Gulf was a little bumpy and we hurried taking turns to use the bathroom due to neither of us wanting to be in the rocking cabin that long. Not much was eaten that day.  Seas apparently only 2 feet and we both agreed we didn’t really enjoy it.

Next two days on Gulf were exceptional! Calm seas, dolphins, sea turtles, jelly fish migrations and a lone crab. (Have never seen a crab swimming on top of the water let alone 3miles out to sea.) We reluctantly pulled back in to GIWW in Port St Joe, because of needing places to anchor within reasonable distances. We went pretty far that day (Saturday) because my mission was to dock somewhere on Sunday to find a place with the NFL package so I could watch the Vikings!

Mission accomplished!  It did cost us $$$$ to get a ride to the next town but it was worth it!

We were driven back to Carabelle where our air conditioned boat was waiting for us! Carabelle is  where some boaters launch out of to make an overnight crossing of the gulf to Tarpon Springs. (181 miles). Not us.  We are hop scotching our way down and boy is it a long drive in and out to every port. Today We had a beautiful/ shorter day on Gulf where we dodged two rain systems and sort of got a close pic of a dolphin. Tonight we are anchored in St Mark’s River.  Just saw our first alligator swim by. Geez!

Tomorrow we’ll be traveling about 75 miles to Steinhatchee.  Maybe only 5 days after that, but again, who’s counting😉

Title Meaning, already explained!