Sandestin to Panama City!

We arrived at Baytowne Marina in Sandestin, FL planning on staying just overnight.  After seeing how beautiful the resort was we decided to stay an extra night and enjoy the sights.  What a beautiful complex!  And...............I got to walk on the beach!  Really beautiful white sugar sand!  The resort has 4 golf courses, 10 tennis courts, a marina, many restaurants, shops and even an ice skating rink.   We were greeted at the entrance to the marina by a MN loon singing right in front of the boat and then right after that, a dolphin!  Life is good!  But enough words, let me show you in pictures!

We left this morning to travel 50 miles to Panama City.   Our travels were across Choctawachee Bay, which is big water and included dolphin sightings then15 miles of a ditch called the “Grand Canyon”.  It was beautiful and reminded us very much of being back on the river.   We then entered West Bay which funnels into St. Andrew’s Bay where Panama City is located.  So many different waterways each one beautiful in its own way!  The pictures are from the “Grand Canyon”.

We will spend the next few days at Panama City marina.  Tomorrow we will spend Thanksgiving at the home of the harbor hosts in this area.  This is the fourth year they have hosted Loopers for Thanksgiving.  They expect to have around 30 loopers!  We will miss our family but it will be fun to spend the day with our new friends and meet some newer ones.   We will have fun stories to tell after our out of the ordinary Thanksgiving day.

The picture of the two boats shows the Ying and the Yang or the before and after or maybe the have everything and have only some.

We have told you one of the biggest challenges is storage!  One of the places we store stuff is behind our couch!  This is Ken putting the toaster oven back in its home!  I think he just about was swallowed by the couch!  Help, he’s fallen and he can’t get up!

We enjoyed another beautiful sunset tonight!

We wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!  We certainly have a lot to be thankful for! 

Good night!  Pat