The great Catalina rescue.
It has been busy lately. We went to Pensacola on Friday and picked up our sails. The guy did a good job. While we were over there, we drove on to Destin to check it out. It is beautiful. We found a nice place to anchor once we get Morgan there. On the way back we stopped at "Pirates Cove" in Alabama to look around. We had several people tell us it was a nice place. It doesn't look like a place we would care too much for, seems mostly for partiers. I am too old and tired to party. I just want to sit, relax, and enjoy the company of a couple people at a time. I had to rescue a guy on a Catalina sailboat yesterday. He decided he was going to sail out of his slip here in the marina and out into the bay. Unfortunately the wind was blowing straight into the marina, so he backed out of his slip, and was blown straight across the marina and into other boats. Everyone was coming out of their boats and pushing him away from their boat and onto the next one. I jumped into Rosie and went over and grabbed a line and pulled him out of the marina. He never has come back. I don't know what happened to him.
WE WENT SAILING TODAY!!!!!! It was 69 and sunny, and as close to heaven as you can get here on earth. Made me feel like winter was officially over. The marina we are at does not have pump out facilities, so we had to go to another one to get the holding tank pumped out. On the way back we were accompanied by dolphins. I don't think it will ever get old seeing these wonderful creatures swimming by the boat.
We are planning on leaving for Destin on Tuesday. It should take a few days to get there. We can't wait to get into the clear water of Florida. Not looking forward to the government hassles though. Oh well you have to take the good with the bad.
Mike
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