Our usual light of day time had us attempting to lift anchor this morning. "The Bar-B" stayed anchored waiting to hear if we would need help or not. It was stuck, but we just used the power of the Yanmars to break it loose and Ray was able to get it lifted. We let "The Bar-B" know and we were on our way.
Mobile Bay was predicted to be rough, diminishing to choppy for today. That was pretty much the forecast through Thursday too, so we decided we were just going to have to go and bite the bullet. We thought the bay forecast was contradictory to the wind forecast for the city of Mobile. Once we were underway for about an hour we all finally mentioned to each other how the wind did not seem to be that bad so how could the bay be rough? Bob and I also mentioned yesterday that if the winds were out of the north then the waves should be at our stern. Fortunately, we were right on both of those accounts. The bay was not all that bad. We mentioned that we have been on it with better predictions and it was worse.
After almost eight hours and 58 miles of travel we pulled up to the face dock at The Wharf in Orange Beach. We were assigned an inside slip, but we would not have been able to get the dinghy off to go play. We plan to stay here for a few days after traveling 13 days straight.
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