Leaving Carrabelle for St. Pete

Well it has been a little over a month here on the river. It has been great.

The marina has character and the town characters show up daily to make it really fun. They say;  " Carrabelle - a small drinking town with a BIG fishing problem" and it is kind of that way. But it is time to go to St. Pete and visit Bill & Pam. So the weather window is opening on Wed evening. We leave Thursday morning, go straight across, and get to St Pete at the marina where the Wilson's have their boat on Friday afternoon. The plan is to let them show us where the good anchor out spots are, visit as much as possible (they both are working etc) and just enjoy life there for awhile. Maybe even a side trip to Disney.

Then we return to Carrabelle. There is a lot of places around here we want to visit (Dog Island, St George Island, Apalachicola, Port St. Joe, Alligator point, etc and do a bit of fishing. And one of the big attractions here is that being in FL for hurricane season suggests that you need plans to take care of your boat and you if one comes your way. Well this here is a lot like Corpus Christi, the hurricanes seem to go somewhere else (with no guarantees) but here, if we have to hide from a hurricane, we go up the river about 5 miles and tie our boat to the string of locals and the trees and have a party (or leave). So we will hurricane season over here, explore this part of Fla, catch a few fish, become a character like those here and then leave to continue our exploring (Southwest and East Florida, and the east coast to the Chesapeake) sometime after November.

We are planning a trip back to CC somewhere in there (Sept-Oct time frame) to see everyone, catch up on everything, leave stuff we took on the boat we don't need and pick up some we think we need. Hope to see you all then.

We turn the SPOT on when we leave.

Life is good and all is well for Carol and Steve aboard m/v Sandpiper