Dec. 24 – Jan. 2   Saunders Yachtworks to Dunedin, FL 

Total miles 397

We spent Christmas at Saunders with some friends from Knoxville TN. who had come down for vacation. During that time we had a boat parade with 40 boats all lit up for Christmas. Since our friends had a car we took a ride along the Gulf coast east to the Florida border.

 

 The Gulf - (a restaurant made from containers that are used on freighters)

 

 Flora Bama (road house built on the Al. and FL. border.

We found out that the window we were waiting there for may not get there till Jan. 6, (Maybe) so we decided to leave and come back here next Spring to have them install the window. We left Saunders on Dec. 26 and travelled thru Ft. Walton, Pensacola, Panama City, and arrived in Apalachicola on Dec. 30.

Pensacola Naval Base

 

 ICW between Panama City & Apalachicola.

 

On Dec. 31 we took off for Dog Island, FL to anchor out for a couple hours. At 3 pm that afternoon we left the anchorage in thick fog to enter the Gulf of Mexico. On Jan. 1 (Happy New Year to us in the middle of the Gulf) after 172 miles & 20 hours we were tied up at a dock in Dunedin, FL.