November 5, 2015

This is a new operating system and has many kinks, so bare with me.
I spent last night on the boat trying to get as many last minute tasks completed as I could before liftoff.  I awoke at 5:30 and tried to complete a few more before Sally brought breakfast from Hardees.  She got to the boat at the same time Bob Riggs came down to bring a repair part  from  Pensacola at 0700.  Buck Monroe came by to help untie the lines and send us off at 1020, so much for the real early start.  We entered a glass smooth bay and had to motor all the way to the ICW.  Saw a lot of dolphins and butterflies, both good omens for me but can't figure out why butterflies are in the middle of the bay.  Once we got in the ditch, we looked back to see and eagle looking back from a dead tree.  When we got past Ono Island we could see the smoke trails from airplanes practicing for this weekends big show with the Blues, look close over the condos on the left and you can see two airplanes.  We couldn't see the sunset but saw some fantastic scenes of the sun playing peek-a-boo in the clouds.  As we headed towards Perdido Bridge I could see a red triangle in the distance and could not make out what it was, but it was in the channel and the same height as the markers, turned out to be a cute little sailboat with two kids loving life to the fullest.  Just as the sun set a couple of old stearman ww2 trainers came over headed to the show.  I don't know how this system will do so I am splitting up the pictures into two groups with a following email.