I am sailing to Mobile Alabama with Lou and Annie and their dog Java (Brown Dog) on their Trawler Annie's Song. This is going to be my first experience aboard a trawler! We are going via the intercostal waterway.
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| Navaguesser |
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| Lou |
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| Annie |
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| walls of the intercoastal |
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| looks like snow |
Niceville is located at 30°30′58″N 86°28′18″W.[5]
The fist day we arrived in Bluewater Bay Marina in Niceville Fl. just off the intercostal waterway in goose bayou. Annie and Lou have sailing friends here, Andy and Alice, super nice people and they had us over for lunch the next day at their house. They have sailed all over the US and into the Caribbean first on their sailboat and now on their trawler. They keep their boat at Bluewater Bay Marina. Niceville is a city in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States, located close to Edlin Air Force Base. It originally began with the name Valparaiso, then to separate itself from the neighboring town took the unofficial name of Boggy. Upon incorporation as an official city, the name was changed to attract more citizens and tourists. The Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival is still held here annually.
Niceville is part of the Fort Walton Beach–Crestview–Destin Metropolitan Statistical Area. Did you know that Internet personality Toby Turner and sportscaster Pam Oliver lived in Niceville? The weather kept us in Niceville a day longer than we expected, but that is ok!
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| Blueway Bay Marina |
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| Niceville Bridge |
We slipped out early in the morning and sailed up the intercostal towards Pensacola beach, our next stop on this wonderful journey. We found a wonderful anchorage....thank you active Captain and Annie! The only bad thing is the yellow flys, if the wind quit blowing and you were on the beach...you were a meal for them! We spent a couple of days there and one day we took the dink and went to Pensacola beach....not impressed with that!!
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| Pensacola Beach Condos |
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| Anchorage |
Pensacola is located at 30°26′13″N 87°12′33″W (30.436988, −87.209277).
Left the anchorage and sailed into Pensacola bay and on to Palofox Marina located in the downtown in Pensacola. Pensacola is a sea port on Pensacola Bay, which connects to the Gulf of Mexico.
The area was originally inhabited by Muskogean peoples; the Pensacola people lived there at the time of European contact. Pensacola Bay was the site of Spanish explorer Tristán de Luna's short-lived settlement in 1559. In 1698 the Spanish established a presidio in the area, laying the foundation for the modern city. It changed hands several times over the next several years, and became the capital of West Florida during Florida's British (1763–1783) and second Spanish periods (1783–1821). Pensacola is nicknamed "The City of Five Flags" due to the five governments that have flown flags over it during its history: the flags of Spain (Castile), France, Great Britain, the Confederate States of America, and the United States.
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| Wall painting |
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| Urban Dining Downtown |
A large United States Naval Air Station, the first in the United States, is located southwest of Pensacola. Naval Air Station Pensacola is the home of both the legendary Blue Angels and the National Museum of Naval Aviation and the museum is not to miss, you can spend hours in there and not see it all, when we went there the Blue Angels were practicing so we had the best of both worlds!
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