Tiny steps eastbound

Who needs a guard dog when you have a guard pelican?

Monday Jan 7 the wind & waves were terrible, so we remained in Gulfport & did some chores around the boat.  Also walked about a mile into "downtown" Gulfport to a local diner for breakfast, and then again for dinner (Sue wanted her oysters, which turned out to come from Galveston Bay in Texas).  Gulfport has quite a few of vacant lots, remnants of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  Most all the people have rebuilt about 5 miles inland by Interstate 10.  So we saw all there is to see downtown in half a day.



Biloxi Shrimpers

                                                               

Today, Tuesday, we had a slight break in the weather (winds died down to 15 mph), so we advanced eastward.  We moved a whole 10.7 miles east to Biloxi.  The city-owned marina here offers cheaper dockage, so, seeing that we may be here a week or more waiting for better weather, we moved over here. This marina is right next to one of the casinos, so Sue just might take her $20 of nickels & spend them soon.  Lots more activity around here, with a shuttle bus that makes the route to all the casinos in town.  The marina also has a dock of shrimp boats, so we'll see if someone has some fresh shrimp to sell.

The weather forecast is unreal.  Only one day in the coming week has the winds along the ICW dying to 15 mph, with seas "decreasing" to 3-4'.  The bad days have winds 25 gusting to 35 mph, with seas as much as 8'.  Not sure when we'll get out of here to move on.

Some folks have asked just where in the heck we're headed!  Well, for now, we're trying to get up to Chesapeake Bay by mid-summer.  Then next winter, head to the St Johns River in Jacksonville.  The following summer, head north to Lake Erie via the Erie Canal.  On the first leg of the journey, we originally planned to get as far as Panama City FL, where we'll leave the boat for a week as we drive to TN to care for Sue's mom.  Then shoot for Ft Myers, where we head back to TN (we need to be in TN for a week every month).  Short term, we're just trying to get across Mobile Bay into the protected areas of the GICW.  If anyone has any connections to Poseidon, please let me know!