Leaving Pensecola for LuLu's

Sorry folks the photos are a little out of order  ... We finally had a calm motoring day that was HOT !!!!!  

Even Tom was sweating buckets. Ed and Kathy mentioned a place called Lulu's  in Gulf Shores Alabama to get fuel and a good meal and we were very happy when around two PM we tied to our slip with the air condition on full blast.  Our trip in the GWII is very different than the ICW. There is commercial traffic, large barges that share this narrow water way. While we were eating we watched in trepidation a large double barge move down the waterway wondering how we would have fared if we had been out there. The water has changed to muddy turned up brown, we have left the cool blue green water behind in Pensacola bay. Tomorrow to cross Mobile bay and hope to make Mississippi.

Jimmy Buffeit's  sister owns this establishment. 

We went past a facility making these. We found
out they are artificial reefs 

Huge climbing gym at Lulus

Tom enjoying some cool libation waiting for
dinner

They have a cool thing when you order Snapper from the menu.
There is a card that came with the meal that I scanned and it took
me to a web site that told me who, where and what vessel
caught my fish.  I think that is so cool 

Now we are at the beginning.. leaving Pensacola

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Thought this was an interesting sign posted where
we exited the channel leaving the Navel Air Station
I don't know what we were doing before this point

Navy fighters over head

we could see the open air hangers from the bay

In 1828, John Q. Adams designated the Naval Live Oaks Area of Gulf Islands National Seashore as the first United States tree farm. Live oak trees are known for their incredible density and resistance to disease. They provided durable wood for the construction of early naval vessels.

There was a medieval belief that fish were so mesmerized by the Osprey that they turned belly-up in surrender,^[48] and this is referenced by Shakespeare in Act 4 Scene 5 of Coriolanus:

I think he'll be to Rome
As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it
By sovereignty of nature.