Tuesday, 10/4/2016

Today starts week 5, as we leave downtown and enter Mobile Bay.  The bay seemed huge compared to the waters we'd travelled in order to get here.  It was really rather windy and choppy as well; a little different than what we were used to. . . a little intimidating, at first.  We would be on the bay headed south for quite some time before going east and into the Intercoastal Waterway.  When we entered the ICW at mid afternoon,  we weren't far from our destination at Orange Beach, AL. We'd arranged through Dave, from Tell City, IN, to stop at Bear Point Marina.  It was so nice to be settled in and we really liked it here from the very beginning.


Wednesday, 10/5/2016

We met Dave and his wife, Jodie for breakfast.  Their son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren live in this area and they have a place here as well.  We've been in touch with Dave since he worked on the boat with Ralph at Rocky Point (IN) and we really value his friendship.  They took us around the area and showed us the sights.  How nice ! ! !     it's great here.

We were then introduced to Jay and Sherrie Reas, formerly of Louisville.  They moved here 11 or12 years ago . . .by way of houseboat and Sherrie runs the marina.  Jay took us across the ICW to Pirates Cove.  Another, in the long line of cool places we've stumbled into.  After talking to Jay for a very short time, it wasn't long before we realized that we had several mutual friends back home.  Jay has offered a lot of advice as we are now in salt water and he is quite knowledgeable.

Looks like we've decided to stick around here for awhile and keep on eye on Hurricane Matthew.  It's far enough away at the moment.
UNBELIEVABLE . . .Gary's back.  He got here at 8:30 tonight.  His hand is on the mend and he came on down before he has to go back to work.  Glad he's here......
We're deciding if we should let this Lucky Lady rest here until hurricane season is over and then continue eastward on the ICW.

Our friend and neighbor, Mike Pennington of Springfield, LA just gave Jimmy a wet suit.  Mike lives next to us with his faithful beagle, Bucket.  The sailboat community here at Bear Point has some interesting folks that we've come to know.  Dolphins are all around the marina everyday, but so far . . .no snapshots.