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| Birds hanging out on a dreary morning |
Finally a nice quiet, upscale anchorage. We departed from
Palafox Pier about 8:30 to cross the Pensacola Bay moderate chop on our beam so
the first hour was a bit rolly polly. Dark clouds all over heavy overcast and
very cool lower 60’s. The weather here does not seem to follow the definite
patterns we see at home, by noon the sun was out the temperature rose to the
middle 70’s and the seas calmed, turned out to be a nice day.
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| They were pretty close and fast but, |
We past Santa Rosa Island which is quite long mostly state
park, some military base and terminates at Ft. Walton Beach. We were treated to
an airshow by two military helicopters that did laps around us for some time.
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| I am sure we were not the target. |
We did a bit of a side trip and toured Destin Harbor, very tight entrance with
a gazillion boats, pubs, restaurants, condos and hotels. Fun to see but not the
place we would choose to anchor. We then passed back under the highway bridge
to a quiet well marked inlet to Joe’s Bayou an anchorage that was recommended
to us in Fairhope. We were greeted at
the inlet by two dolphins that enjoyed playing in our bow wave, this bayou has
a wide part at the inlet that narrows and shallows to a small channel that is
not marked and then opens up to a nice sized area for anchoring.
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| Destin Harbor |
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| Who lives here? |
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| Nice Neighborhood anchorage |
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