Ingram Bayou

Today was a beautiful day for cruising. We left our anchorage and took our time cruising and seeing the shoreline. We stopped for fuel at the Oyster Bar and marina in Perido Key and of course had to try out the restaurant. We would sometimes run into some patchy fog, but nothing to bad. We went into Robert's bayou and Pirates Cove was hopping. This is obviously a very popular place. We looked around and left. We are now anchored in a very nice bayou for the night.

Anchored between Ft Walton and Pensacola

Well it did not start out to well today, but ended in a lovely anchorage spot. Decided to go outside cruising from Panama City to Destin instead of using the intracoastal. It was foggy, rough(at least to me) and I was green and not a happy camper by the time we reached Destin. It WON'T happen again. We finally arrived at the Ft Walton beach city dock and pulled in for a couple of hours. Walked to the Publix , bought a sandwich since we both were starving and had not eaten since this morning. It was good to walk and and get my sea legs back. We pulled out and headed to anchorage another boater told us about. We are tucked in behind an island and across from Eglin Airforce beach property. May have to stay here tomorrow also if this fog doesn't lift.

Launched and headed to Texas

Chris launched us about 9:45am this morning in Panama City Florida.  Chip didn't work in Garmin, but they are sending us an update for our model early next week. We have the one for here to New Orleans so we will be fine with the GPS until then. All in all, so far we are good:)

a monthand half away

Well, we are getting closer to our trip. Only a month and a half away. We are getting the bottom of boat painted next week, then we start organizing trip.

The route planning

We visited Biloxi this past weekend and found out that there are two marinas there. Beau Rivage marina is not opened and won't be anytime soon. I am wondering how much of this we will encounter on our trip due to the hurricanes Katrina and Rita that his the coastline. The guides do not seem to be up to date anymore.

Planning our next adventure

Well we are starting to get the fever again for some cruising and are planning our tri to complete the loop that we didn't in 2008. We are going to cruise from Panama City , Fl to the Texas Coast the first of April 2011. The planning is always one of my favorite parts.

Panama City , Flcruising

Bayou Joe's for lunch. Pulled boat right up to restaurant and got out.

Took the boat out for an overnight trip to get away from the farm a bit. Cruised around St Andrews Bay, stopped at Shell Island, ate lunch at Bayou Joes and then dropped anchor at Smack Bayou for the night. Had a great trip....