Last night at Panama City, a local band played until after 2:00 AM, inhibiting my sleep, but Mr. Wonderful slept soundly. SIGH!!  We set our clocks back before going to bed  and  when I woke up this morning I was confused as to what time it really was -- we're still in the central time zone and now with returning to standard time I have to stop and think about it.  Somewhere soon we'll be back in the eastern time zone.

This morning we gave Striper a nice bath, then left St. Andrews Marina in Panama City for only 9 miles to Pearl Bayou, arriving late morning.  It was a very lazy day, beautiful and sunny.  Rays of some sort were leaping out of the water and I tried to get some photos, but only got photos of where the rays "were."  Not fast enough. We enjoyed lunch on the flybridge -- haven't done that in a while.  I started to read in bed and fell asleep -- woke up three hours later and was glad to have a nice nap.

 

At this point in our travel we are carefully watching the weather.  There are 172 miles of open water that we must cross as we head home.  Most Loopers opt to do the entire trip from Carrabelle to Tarpon Springs in one fell swoop -- which for us would take about 22 hours.  We are choosing not to do that, but instead our plan is this:

Monday:         Pearl Bayou to White City at the city dock

Tuesday:        White City to Carrabelle at a marina

Wednesday:   Carrabelle to Alligator Harbor anchorage

Thursday:       Alligator Harbor to Cedar Key 100 miles

Friday:            Cedar Key to Tarpon Springs 65 miles

We're just off Panama City tonight

Tindall Bridge

Our view in Pearl Bayou

Pearl Bayou -- very shallow where you can see the sandy bottom

Well, it WAS a good lunch!

Tonight's back yard