We have spent the last 4 days at anchor in some really
secluded anchorages, so it was a bit of a shock coming into Mobile bay.
We are
now in salt water for the next few thousand miles. Mobile bay was incredibly
quiet with very few tows or ships, but we did see one tow pushing a ship against
a loading dock.
We also came across some shrimp boats. Check out all the
seagulls looking for a snack!
We past a ship yard that builds stealth looking boats. These
boats apparently have changeable cargo
areas so the boat can serve any function you like. Very neat! There must be a demand
for them, since they had boat number 8 in the building and they just started
operations 2 years ago. That is a lot of ships to turn out in a couple of
years.
The salt water bring with it some other special treats too.
Dolphins swimming around our boat was really neat. I can't believe I actually
got a picture of one!
The other really special treat was fresh shrimp. Around 4
pm a marina staff came to tell us the shrimp boat was in so we walked over
there with empty grocery bags and told the shrimp boat captain how many pounds
we wanted. He weighted it and then dumped it into our bags.
Six dollars a pound
and I do not believe you could get it any fresher. We have been traveling with
2 other couples Randy and Sherrie and Jim and Sharon. We all got our 3 pounds
of shrimp and off to our boats to clean them. These things were huge! I have
never cleaned shrimp before, so Jim and Sharon came over to give me a lesson on
how to snap the heads off and how to de-vein them. Another new experience.
Randy and Sherrie hosted us on their boat this evening, and we all had some
lovely shrimp which Randy prepared spicy for me. My Jim of course does not eat
shrimp so he BBQ'ed some chicken before going over to the Chester's boat to eat.
As always; a lovely day and a lovely evening. Nighty night all.
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| Huge expanse of Mobile bay. |
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