Tyndall Flyers

Four nights in Apalachicola was a lot of fun.  “The Bar-B” was there with us for Saturday night, but unfortunately had to leave Sunday morning.  They wanted to get to a place of better access to rental cars or airports in case their special needs grandson in Wisconsin got any worse during his unexpected hospital stay with pneumonia.  Fortunately he seems to be doing better and should get to go home soon.

Ray’s childhood friend Scott arrived around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday via motorcycle from Tarpon Springs.  Bill and Patty arrived on “Conched Out Too” a couple hours later.  We hit all of our favorite hang outs including Hole In The Wall, Up The Creek, Boss Oyster, Bowery Station, Tap Room and more.

This morning Bill helped untie us from the old ice house docks a little after seven o’clock.  They gave us about an hour head start since they usually travel faster.  Today though we had the tide with us virtually all day.  We averaged about 7.5 miles per hour.  A few hours into our travel we entered the Central Time Zone, so that put us ahead an hour too.  We encountered a couple boats going each direction and a dredge near the Port St. Joe Canal, but other than that was a quiet ride mostly in ditches.  The last of our day of travel was through the east end of East Bay to anchor in Pearl Bayou as we almost always do near Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City.  “Conched Out Too” never did catch us until they came in to anchor about a half hour after our 2:15 p.m. Central Daylight Time arrival.  Now it’s just enjoying our own personal air show.