Panama City to Port St Joe 11/4/17

We left after breakfast and headed outside to the ocean for our trip along the coast to Port St Joe.  The ocean was calm with maybe 6" waves and a following breeze to push us along.  The beaches are endless here and beautiful white sand with no one on them.  It is Saturday so there is a lot of fishing boats out and pleasure craft enjoying the warm fall weather. It was about a 3-4 hour run over to Port St Joe and we checked in around 2:00 PM.  Nice small friendly marina with lots of locals.  The guy on the Ocean next to us is from BC and lived in the Okanogan valley.  Damn Canadians everywhere you go.

I checked in at the office and got the WiFi codes so we could work on the blog and start planning our crossing to Tarpon Springs.  This is usually done as an afternoon departure with an overnight crossing and arriving off of Tarpon Springs late enough in the morning that the sun is high enough so you can see the crab pots in the sun's reflection on the water when you are near Tarpon Springs. Some find this very intimidating but I see it as an adventure especially since the weather forecast is very good and there will be a full moon to guide us on our way.  We have been discussing with another 50+ trawler about buddy boating across.  I guess we will see if they make it to Apalachicola in time for our departure Monday afternoon.  The time changes tonight but for us it will stay the same since we crossed back over into the eastern time zone.  That was easy no clocks to change or sleep schedule change.  I will still wake up at 5:30!

Debbie and I gave Abby a bath, she is so well behaved and now she looks and smells great.

Next up was to do the final assembly of the chairs we have been recovering.  It went well and we celebrated with cocktails trying out the newly recovered chairs on the aft deck.

When we had dinner at the Italian Restaurant the other night I had the Veal Piccata and enjoyed it so much that I thought I would try making chicken piccata since I had all of the ingredients and it sounded pretty straight forward. It turned out really well and I will make it again.  We watched a double header of Downton Abbey and then off to bed.

View out onto St Joseph Bay from our dock