We're in Panama City Florida having cruised from Sandestin today in cloudy and sometimes rainy weather. We didn't leave the dock at Sandestin until 11;00 because of lightning in the area, but got here about 4:30 PM.

Like before, half of the waterway is a dug canal, called "The Ditch" by locals here, and the other half is in large open bays and lagoons.










In the bays, dolphins picked us up frequently when they could siurf our side wake.












About 2 PM, a mother and baby dolphin surfed us and she seemed to be showing the baby dolphin how to surf. This is the baby, while the mother (or father I guess) is just a big ripple under water closer to the boat. The baby dolphin was only about 1/4th the size of the adult and had to come up to breathe many more times than the adult. They both had fun and jumped and splashed.

Later two big dolphins were surfing and jumping and I increased our speed to make a bigger wake, which caused them to jump higher, frequently clearing the water entirely like this.

I'm putting too many dolphin pictures in the bloig, but they're such fun to watch.


Tomorrow we're going on to Carrabelle where we'll wait for good wave conditions on the open Gulf waters to cross to Florida's West coast from the panhandle.