April 15-16 Apalachicola

We arrived in Apalachicola at 6:30 pm and located the public dock to tie up to.  What an interesting marina.  So many very large houseboats.  Seriously...HOUSEboats!  LOL  We spent the next day being tourists.  I visited all the wonderful shops and then met up with Carter to go to the Apalachicola Maritime Museum.  It was a beautiful, sunshiny day and we both felt guilty for not traveling on such a sunny day...after all the cloudy, overcast days that we have been trying to travel with. But it was worth it to take a break and soak up Historic Apalachicola.

At first I thought this was the marina office!  Opps my mistake.  This is someones home!

When they want to move, they just slide a boat into the slot here and push the house boat!  I thought it was the "carport" for the dingy!  LOL

This was a 75' house boat.  Way Cool!

A true HOUSEboat with siding!

I actually caught a beautiful sunrise.  We can thank Radar for this! 

We departed Apalachicola around 4:00 pm that afternoon to take advantage of the last remnant of this beautiful sunny day to get as far as we could.  Right at sunset a large pod of dolphins decided to tag along.  It was a real treat ... our very own personal sunset dolphin cruise!

 

Ever been eyeballed by a dolphin?

It can actually be a bit disconcerting sometimes when they get up real close to the boat and seem to look right at you and smile as they come out of the water. They are amazing creatures. 

Although we had actually reach our anchorage spot in the St George Island, since the dolphin were hanging with us, Carter ran on the batteries for another 45 min after sunset running parallel to the island. We dropped anchor for the night when they had enough fun with us and left.