Pensacola to Alligator Point June 30

Yesterday we went out to NAS Pensacola to tour the National Naval Aviation Museum.  With thunderstorms in the area, it was a good day for an indoor venue.  Also, the bus does not run on Sunday, and with the distance involved, a cab would have been very expensive.  We caught the bus that runs to the museum a few blocks from the marina, and had a delightful tour of a fair amount of Pensacola and two military installations while on the way.  In addition to touring the museum buildings, we also rode a trolley out to a part of the flight line where there are many planes that have been “retired” and donated to the museum.  Our driver was quite knowledgeable, and gave us a very interesting narrative about each plane.  After catching the bus back downtown, we walked through the old town Seville area, toured the Wentworth State Historical Museum there, and returned to the boat for dinner.  After dinner we walked over to the weigh-in station to take a peek at the tournament catch.

This morning we rose later, studied the weather, and decided to move on.  There were some thunderstorms in the area, but not a drop fell on us all day.  We motored over to the fuel dock, fueled, and checked out about 0945.  We had a brisk breeze across Pensacola Bay, then turned east into the ICW.  We passed the Navarre Beach Bridge at 1250 and the Fort Walton Beach Bridge at 1445.  We passed Destin, and were under the Choctawhatchee Mid Bay Bridge by 1600.  I had planned to anchor in Hogtown Bayou, but after considering how far off the ICW we would travel to pass its bottom obstructions, we continued on to a beautiful spot just east of Alligator Point.  We were welcomed by about a dozen dolphins as we anchored at 1745, and seemingly they approved of our location and technique.