Free Bird heads South: STARTING TO FEEL LIKE A LOCAL!

SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 23, 24 & 25

We are still in Apalachicola and Sunday brings yet more rain!!! Oh yeah and football! Only we can't get the Packer game of course so we don our rain coats and head to Boss Oyster to catch what games we could with John and Karen.

Neat little tree along the downtown street

Apalachicola is famous for their oysters but unfortunately neither John nor I care for them. I think Karen and John have had them in like 5 different places already.

They even use oyster shells for mulch!

We discovered this morning that the "marina" that provides the showers and bathroom facilities for us (down the road) was locked and we could not get in to use them. Not happy with this choice of dockage, that's for sure! Went back to Free Bird and turned them on to the game Catch Phrase. They had never played before and I think they liked it. Had a great time, it is always fun. Just another Early to bed tonight.

Monday..,more rain! We are turning into ducks and it is really getting old. We took the golf cart to the Piggly Wiggly and stocked up on some food. Then we took the golf cart back and moved from the ice house dock to the city dock. Got it done during a break in the rain and fog with some help from John and Karen. City dock has no electric or water but the price was right! Got to know our new neighbors here a bit. An eclectic group it certainly was, a Corsair F-27 trimaran, a Lagoon 45, a Catalina 27, a Marina Trader and shrimp boats! Toured the town a bit more and ended up at the Owl Tap Room.

Cool ship's wheel with tappers - love it!

Great place with wonderful food and drink. Had Duck fries, OMG! French fries with duck confit, proscuitto and a gruyere cheese...heaven!

This sign was over the door leading to the bathrooms!

It was just too ugly outside to be walking around so called it another early night.

Here comes Tuesday and yes, you guessed it - more rain! Thought we would go out to breakfast just to get off the boat. I started talking to a young gal at the next table who overheard John on the phone saying we were on a sailboat. Her name was Irene and she was visiting from Maryland. Her sister has a home on St. George Island and she asked us if we would like to drive over there with her and check it out. Of course we jumped at the chance to go for a ride in a nice warm, dry car! She gave us a tour of the island and it even stopped raining long enough for us to walk on the beach a bit. Back to Apalach we go and decided to take Irene out to lunch and met up with John and Karen.

Our new friend Irene!

Afterward Karen, Irene and I went and did some more Christmas shopping (I am now done!!) and the guys went back to the boats. Most of the Loopers are down at the Water Street Hotel and Marina. Nicest place around but too shallow for us. On our walk down to say hi to everyone there we came across this cool Christmas tree they erected in the park this morning.