Tom, drooling at the view of testosterone boats
Sunset from the aft deck of our boat
Diann at Sportsman Harbor
Tom at the restaurant
Bear Point Marina, home for the night
LuLu's Restaurant and MM 155 ICW
“Noah Genda” Departed Dog River Marina this morning with three other looper vessels heading south easterly across Mobile Bay. We all were going to different locations ultimately, however we made the sixteen mile bay crossing together and then split up. What a great pleasure to see dolphins on most of our journey today. We entered the Intracoastal waterway (ICW) and made our way past LuLu’s Restaurant (Jimmy Buffet's sister) at MM 155, but chose to continue on another few miles for the day. The homes, marinas and sites along the way are absolutely beautiful.
We selected Bear Point Marina in Orange Beach AL for our port of call for the day. There is a nice looking restaurant on site here, however closed on Mondays. This a nice small marina. It is very tempting to anchor at one of the many opportunites along the way, but we chose to stay at this reasonably priced marina for 75 cents a foot, including cable TV, wifi, water and electricity, and ride our bicycles to town. We had a wonderful afternoon, a two mile ride to town, stopped at a hardware store and then found Sportsman Marina with Harborside restaurant. We could not have asked for a more perfect afternoon to have lunch outside and overlook the beautiful harbor. The harbor was full of sport fishing boats of all types and price range.
Today was also our first experience at docking at pilings in lieu of floating docks. Fortunately it was a calm day and we executed the maneuver without incident. Also new for us is assuring that the boat is secured to allow for low to high tide, all cross tied forward and aft, inclulding spring lines forward and aft, no exeception.
Did we say, the weather is spectacular !!!!
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