Today we cast off from Turner Marine at 7:15 am and chased a beautiful sunrise! We headed down the shipping channel of Mobile Bay to channel marker 60 and turned to a heading of 135 degrees. Several hours latter we intersected the intercostal (ICW) with in 100 ft of my plotted course! We shared the channel with a shrimp boat and assorted commercial boats. When we turned off the channel I crossed a mile or so ahead of a container ship traveling at 12 knots. A little latter on we caught the container ships wake! Holly S@&$! It was a minimum of 6 feet! The good news they where widely spaced and we just rode up and over them!
While cruising the ICW a 65 ft sport fisher called and ask to pass us as we were only traveling at 6.3 knots. We BS'd for a bit before he hit the throttle and he was gone. I asking what he had in it for power, ttwin 2000 hp MTU's. The boat will run 40 knots! Can't fathom the fuel burn.
We pulled into a bayou a little NE of Orange Beach AL. Anchored in a beautiful spot about 2:30 we covered about 46 miles today. Absolutely perfect cruising. After a nice dingy ride we took the Dingy over to Pirates Cove for dinner. Pulled the dingy up on a white sand beach and went into the joint!
We befriended the Bar Tender ( always a good move). We had intended to go out side on the deck but after being bushwacked, we stayed at the bar for possibly the best pizza in the world and got bushwhacked again! A Bushwack is three kinds of rum, Kalua, and ice cream. After dark we headed back to the anchorage in the Bayou and found our boat with the trusty anchor light on! Gotta love being in the sticks!
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