Carabelle - finallly!

 I have to say, I was beginning to think we would never get here!  The travel day was not ideal, but safe and doable and our trip was only 4 hours long. We are safely docked at C-Quarters Marina and it was a bit of a circus gettin into our spot.  This marina only have finger slips perpendicular to the shore line and they are lined with huge poles coming out of the water and only a narrow 4-foot piece of dock alongside once you are docked.  To stand a chance of getting off the boat you have to back in - something our boat is not really set up to do, especially since we no longer have a “back up camera”. Our power cord comes off the front of the boat too….

After mental and physical gymnastics and the help of the one woman in the office, we were tied up - 45 minutes later.  😓 The dog can get off the boat and more importantly - so can I! We have to move the boat forward each night before going to bed so the rising tide doesn’t put us up on the fixed wood dock and move it back each morning - can’t wait to do that for 4 days….  It is like Hooverville here - this town is nothing like Apalachicola.  LOL! The covered porch of the aging marina office-store building is dotted with equally aging rocking chairs with faded seat cushions where the locals gather each morning for coffee and “shooting the breeze”. Entertaining, for sure.

We took a brief walk “into town” and discovered a very nice IGA grocery is only a block away, but other than that, it is a wasteland.  I have included pictures of the police station - famously the smallest police station in the state.  There are even wanted posters posted on the wall inside.  What a hoot!

The plan today is to walk to the marina next door where several loopers are docked and try to coordinate a gulf crossing with a buddy boat or two.  Still looks like Sunday to Monday might be the window.  Time will tell…






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ArizonaAuntie said…
Hitting some Florida hot spots I see🤣
January 27, 2022 at 10:34 AM
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