We anchored last night in Lake Wimico just past Apalachiacola. We arrived after dark with me sitting up on the bow with a spot light illuminating the way but when we got up and outside this morning we discovered we had anchored pretty close to a post protruding rudely out of the water with a white warning sign on it. This kind of gives you the heebee geebees {shudder} and is why we try to avoid night ops whenever possible. Even when you try your best, the worst could happen. We weighed anchor and continued on down (up?) the river. We had nice weather and Carter decided to get back to some of his chores and work on finishing some of the wire terminations.
Here he is running his lines through conduit. He was working steadily along when dummy me decided to run us hard aground. You cannot stray even slightly from the channel in many places. We lost about 30 minutes getting off the mud and finally did by dumping a couple hundred gallons of our water to lessen our draft. Carter was working on deploying the dingy to skeg us off with the anchor when we finally broke loose on the last try before launching the dink.
Even though we didn't quite get as far as we were hoping to today, we arrived in Panama City at sunset and decided to drop anchor there and forego any night ops tonight.
Looking good!
We are almost there!
Some sites along the way today. Bayou country is beautiful!
Lots of Florida Cypress.
The only other boaters out today. Besides a few fishermen flying by in there grossly overpowered bass boats.
Still waters are suppose to run deep, but not so much around here.
Stray from the channel and you're in the mud!
This guy was actually trying to push this little house up the river with his little boat. He wasn't having much luck at all. If we weren't in such a time crunch, we would have stopped to help him.
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