Wednesday, Nov 1st

Good Morning All.... As you can see, I finally figured out how to upload a picture to the blog site. We took this picture at Bobby's Fish Camp on the Tombigbee River in Alabama. This is the only dockage in about 250 miles - no services at all - it is just a dock. We had a perfect afternoon there - no other boats - Bobby was not even around.

The next day was interesting. We had a run of 130 miles with no choices but to go all the way. We had heavy fog until around 9 AM and a railroad bridge delay. We waited for about a hour for the bridge to open. We arrived in Mobile Harbor just at dusk - wove our way through huge ships and oil tankers and finally into Mobile Bay after dark. We still had about 10 miles to the marina at Dog River. We made it fine with the help of radar, a good chart plotter and a good search light. The moon was bright and the weather fine which helped. The Bay is only about 9 feet deep and I'm told that you don't want to be on it in a storm. You also cannot go out of the channels because the "spoil" from the dredging is dumped along the channels making it very easy to run aground. We are at Dog River now, finally have good internet reception. We are planning to leave later today or tomorrow for the Gulf. We are really enjoying the seafood - fresh oysters and shrimp - right off the boats.

We have rented a car and plan to be home on Friday or Saturday. We are feeling the need to see the grandkids and catch up at the office. We will have been gone from home a month - long enough.

I'm going to try uploading some more pictures . . .

See you guys out there somewhere.
Love from Bob & Ann