Mobile Bay - We made it!!!

The day started out more like a MN morning as you can see by the frost on the hard top!  Did we take a wrong turn and head north?  No we didn’t!  We had anchored 12 miles north of Mobile Bay and by the time we got there, it was a warm sunny morning!  What a sight to enter that big beautiful bay in little 20BUCK$. 

There  are some ginormous ships in this harbor!!  Names on the ships were from all over the world.  Still hard to believe we are here!  The convention center sits right on the bay and is a beautiful building!  Unlike Thursday with 30 mph winds and reported high waves in the bay, Friday the bay was flat.  Great first experience with BIG water! 

Our destination for the day was several miles into the shipping channel, turn 90 degrees for a mile, turn to heading 125 degrees for 6.5 miles.  We had plotted it out on the paper chart and loaded the waypoints into the chart plotter.  This was our first experience with plotting our own way points to reach a destination.  Guess what!  We were right on!  We arrived at the entrance to Fly Creek and just inside is Eastern Shore Marina where we will stay for the week.   The day ended with a beautiful sunset over the breakwater.  The other picture is our view from 20BUCK$.

Saturday morning we signed up for the courtesy car to run some errands.  That two hours goes so fast that we didn’t get everything done on our list.  There is always tomorrow.  Fairhope is a very picturesque little town.  It reminded us very much of 50th and France only with many more flowers and several square blocks.  I will go back to this town before we leave and spend some quality time in the charming boutiques and shops.  Could do some serious damage to the credit card here!

Hard to explain  the excitement we felt yesterday arriving in Mobile Bay.  We really did it and have enjoyed every mile!  My only disappointment was that we didn’t see any dolphins!  I am sure they are out there and we have many more miles of ocean to travel before we are done!  They will find us!

We will enjoy land time this week, exploring this charming little city, trying some of their restaurants and walking the beach that is just around the corner from the entrance to Fly Creek. 

The TennTom that we have written so much about is 450 miles ending in Mobile Bay.

Thanks for coming along with us on our adventure of a lifetime!

Pat