April 17-18 Rattlesnake Cove and Carrabelle

We departed our anchorage  on the lee side of St.George Island heading for Carrabelle.  The winds picked up overnight, naturally from the East where we are headed and we began slogging our into strong headwinds and seas (again) about 10:30 when the batteries were charged.  About an hour later after we had passed under the St. George Island bridge I look behind  to see this fishing boat coming up on us with his outriggers down.  It gave me concern because he looked like he was taking up the whole channel until he got close enough for me to see there was room for him to safely pass.

This is fishing territory...for sure.  There are fishing boats out everywhere.  This guy must have left his last location in a hurry as he was dragging all kinds of stuff in the water.  Tsk, tsk.

Hey look!  The Captain and Seaman Apprentice match today!  Day glow yellow! 

We have seen dolphins everyday on this leg of the trip which is a pleasant change from the aligators down in south west Florida.

We anchored in Carrabelle right at sunset sliding into home plate on the last little bit of juice in our battery. Since the weather is predicted to be lousy for the next week, the yard we plan to go for some work on the Arc later on is here, and this is officially the end of the GCICWW, the captain has declared that this is officially the temporary end to the first leg of our all solar passage around Florida. Tomorrow we will revert to hybrid mode, fire up Big Ben, (our antique diesel engine) and burn a few dinasours to get to St. Marks. We will return to Carrabelle when we resume the cruise aid and pick up our "all solar" passage around Florida from here after we do some maintenance at the Carrabelle Boat Yard. Tomorrow we steam on in the rain under diesel power to rondevous with friends and family waiting for us to arrive in Tallahassee.