Migrating Loons

Gulf State Park We are now officially in Florida! Hip hip horay! We should start seeing warmer weather more regularly now even though we are still in northern Florida. (It's still much warmer than back home) For those who don't follow us on Facebook, we left Homeport Marina (home of the famous Lulu's restaurant - she's Jimmy Buffets sista!) and stopped at Orange Beach Marina (still in Alabama).  We really liked our stay there - it is another of those places that we would like to come back and spend more time. Great staff, courtesy car, and almost everything you want in biking distance - including the Gulf State Park . We only have positive things to say about Orange Beach. Orange Beach, FL: Our next stop was in Pensacola FL, at the Palafox Pier Yatch Harbor . We found it pricey at 2.25/ft, but it was downtown and within walking distance to nice shops and lots of restaurants. We enjoyed our stay, but at that price...

Smiling as we near the end of the Inland Rivers! We left Kingfisher Marina in Demopolis Friday, February 1st and made our way to the lock. After a little wait, we made our way in and transited down. We hoped we would have a few good days weather wise as we planned to anchor out a few times before we made it to Mobile Bay. The first night we anchored at Bashi Creek. It was our first time anchoring in such a narrow creek. Waiting at Demopolis Lock Bashi Creek The following day we stopped at the popular "Bobby's Fish Camp" where we had supper and bought fuel for the boat. It was a short ride the next morning to transit the very last lock of the Inland Rivers. Yay!!! The lockage went really smooth and we thought we would have another great day. The weather had warmed up, but not the water... as a result we hit fog on the river. So, we found another anchorage (mile 100, old lock wall) not to far and waited it out the fog a good two hours... Bobby's F...