We're in Pensacola Beach, FL at the Perdido Key Oyster Bar and Marina, which is just a few feet from the Florida/Alabama state line.

It's really a very nice marina because it's right on the ICW so you don't have to go miles up Pensacola Bay to the city and come back down the next day. Nonchalance is on the dock at the right in this picture and the big restaurant is above the docks at the end of this dock. The restaurant overlooks the ICW and beautiful East and West views of the gulf from their windows. Also, it is completely new becasue it was destroyed by a Hurricane in 2004 and was rebuilt in 2006. Because it's on the key, you can walk about a mile across the key to the gulf beach, but we decided not to. We did get Oysters Rockefeller from the oyster bar though.

On the way here, we cruised through the ICW and the bays, mostly in the Santa Rosa Sound. The South side of the ICW is always the gulf barrier islands and is frequently pretty white sand dunes with beaches on the ICW and the gulf.




At one wide spot in the ICW, there was a kite surfer running the channel. He could really zip fast because the kite reached above the dunes to catch the 20 MPH breeze blowing today, but the water in the ICW behind the dunes was very calm.





Tomorrow we're going to Mobile Bay where we'll stay at the Fairhope, AL marina. We'll get our car from Carrabelle, FL on Tuesday and pick up our cruising buddy, Bill Stone who also has his boat at Farihope. Then we'll both cruise up the rivers starting on Thursday.