Friends

Ray and Gary from "Time & Tide".  Here are the twin boys on
Tuesday solving the world problems.  I got caught taking their
 picture. Both no shoes, beige shorts, blue shirts, same hair line
and same personalities.

We had such a good time in Ft. Walton Beach, despite the cold and windy weather.  Tuesday morning the girls walked up to Publix for some shopping, stopping at other shops on the way.  Tuesday afternoon we got laundry done.  Tuesday night we were invited, along with Daniel and Angela from "Teasa", whom have been traveling with "Time & Tide" since Michigan, over to "Time & Tide" for spaghetti dinner and Mexican Train.  We had so many laughs.  Daniel and Angela are from Brazil and taught themselves English by reading Skipper Bob waterway guide books.  Some of our American slang was lost on them, but they were such good sports.
The winds picked up out of the north and bounced us off the dock and back into it all night.  What do you want for free though, right?
Wednesday was another trip to Publix since the sales changed, and we pumped out.  Not much else was done besides making a Crock Pot full of potato and ham soup with the chilly temperatures and nasty wind chill.
The east winds on Wednesday night made for a choppy ICW channel, clapping the bottom of the boat and squeaking us up against the dock.  Therefore it wasn't hard to get up and get underway by six o'clock this morning.
The east winds made the Choctawhatchee Bay moderately choppy, but we have been in it in worse.  It improved as we traveled east and allowed for baked apple French toast to be made and enjoyed by mid morning.
It was an uneventful day with the first episodes of dolphins jumping in our bow wake this morning.  They must have been extra frisky in the chilly weather as they jumped way out of the water several times.
It took us ten and a half hours at 2300 RPMs to maintain 7 miles and hour to travel 72 miles today.  We are anchored in Pearl Bayou which is right next to Tyndall Air Force Base.  We anchored just in time to hear the National Anthem a half hour after our arrival.

Bald eagle on a short dead tree hanging over the bank.