Good morning everyone! Steve and I have a beautiful day for sailing today, calm waters great winds and warm weather. Starteout with me attempting to create buttermilk pancakes, obviously I used too much buttermilk and they were flat and doughy, not like my regular pancakes. We got those down, you know anything tastes good with syrup. 🙂 needless to say that recipe has been revised! Our travel channel today is a swampy ditch with all kinds of neat vegetation on each side, Florida is beautiful. On the side of this channel in the sand there was one spot of that grass, you know the grass, the soft kind that squishes under your feet and feels so good. We can’t wait to get out and find us some. Panama City is our destination for food fuel and entertainment. Gonna take some time and enjoy the city. Signing off for now more later tonite. We just watched two bald eagles and a falcon fight over a fish on the bank. They were chasing each other thru the trees and dive bombing each other. Well Steve and I just got to see our first “Eagles -vs- Falcons” game. Hehehe. OK we finally made it to Panama City (actually St Andrew’s Marina in historic St Andrew0. We had plenty of help anchoring out at the marina, the people are friendly and we were immediately offered a ride to the stores when Steve mentioned we had to restock our food stores. Love the sailboats here, plenty of shrimp boats and charter fishing boats, and big cruisers. This town has so much old world charm, most of the buildings are restored and they have a wonderful park full of Christmas figures and lights to rival big city Christmas light shows,  a walkway to the ocean which we didn’t get to see the ocean a couple were busy at the end of the walkway and we didn’t want to disturb them. Will walk it tomorrow. Steve and i walked the sidewalks past the unique shops looking in the windows. We really like this town and the marina. People here are really friendly and helpful. We saw so many dolphins today, one dolphin came right up to the boat and swam under it. It was so beautiful, we were so excited we could have reached out and touched it! I think we have enjoyed seeing the dolphins the best, although we like to watch the dive bombing pelicans and the majestic bald eagles also. A young guy caught a weird fish here at the marina, i will try to post a picture maybe someone can tell me what it is. Our next step in our journey is out to the gulf to go to Port St Joe. We may have to stay here several days due to weather in the gulf since we can’t leave tomorrow and it is raining Tues. We are going to enjoy Panama City for a day or two. Another end to a wonderful day on the water!

CAPTAINS LOG: Logged 43 miles today, water was calm winds to 5 mph, water is still thin in lots of areas. Marina is very nice and very  close to a lot of restaurants, stores and entertainment. Good place to stay, 1.30 per foot for transient docks.