FT. WALTON to PANAMA CITY / Sunday, November 6 (Day 289)

Admiral's Log:   6:55 am, 11/6/16
                       Air Temp:   60     Water Temp:   69
                      Winds:   7 mph
                      Speed:   10.2 mph

We changed our clocks back last night so we did not leave as early as we thought. We will slowly work our way down the coast to make the dreaded Gulf crossing. Most of the next few days are stops all Loopers make as they prepare to cross the Gulf. 

All the bird poop makes it hard to see the color of buoys...

this is suppose to be a green buoy.

Hurricane damage?

Nice fixer upper.

Another choppy and pretty cool start. We both had on warm up pants and jackets, and of course I had on my ear muffs. We crossed Choctawhatchee Bay into a very narrow channel. 

Entering the narrow channel on the ICW

Lots of sand dunes along the channel.

We got to Panama City marina at 1:30 and topped off with diesel. Our slip was pretty far from the main ship store and pretty darn tight. We had to bow in, which ended up working out better anyway, because we fished out of the cockpit. We bought a couple dozen bait shrimp for something to do. We must have caught at least 30 fish between the 2 of us. No keepers but quite the variety; flounder, puffer, snake fish, pinfish, mangrove snapper, trout and one really big something Mike lost. 

Since we were so close to home we are trying to eat up what we have on board rather than buy anything else. So we had breakfast for dinner, one of my favorites.