Carrabelle, Florida - the Night Before the Crossing

Today we left Apalachicola and were finally able to go at our cruising speed of 13-15 knots. Most of our trip was in Apalachicola Bay, although there was a skinny channel for a lot of it. 

Once we got to the Carrabelle area, we did a reconnaissance mission into the Gulf to go through our plan for tomorrow morning at 4:30 am. The route checked out, so we are good to go.  It was very windy today, 10-15 knots so the waves and spray were hitting our boat.  But tomorrow the wind should be 5-10 knots, which is enough to keep the fog away. However, there is a frost warning tonight. 😩

The pass leading to the Gulf

Remember back on August 14, I posted a picture of a stubby piling?

That was in the Great Lakes where they don’t have tides.  Now that we are in the Gulf of Mexico, there are tides and these are the pilings you see.



Now those are pilings!

We were able to go into the town of Carrabelle and have lunch at a Korean … Um, not a restaurant, not a food truck - I don’t know, you tell me.


But it was a fun place




Then we toured the town and found the Police Station

Then we found this Veterans Memorial

A little while later, we saw these birds standing on the water (actually a sand bar that can’t be seen). So that’s why the marina employee told us to stay to the right of the channel markers. 

And we ended the day with another lovely sunset

Tomorrow is the big Gulf Crossing.  We’ve planned for it, we’ve talked about it, we brought in a retired Navy Captain to help us out.  We’ve studied for the test; all we can do now is take it.  Hopefully our next posting will be full of our Gulf adventure!



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