rip, truly, never a dull moment and I’ve come to appreciate all of them. We cruised across the St. Andrews Bay and entered the West Bay Creek, where we knew it would become tapered. Just at the entrance of the creek they were putting in new pylons, I’m sure all the workers wore ear plugs it was the loudest BOOM BOOM I’ve heard; interesting operation. I also saw my first seaplane today.
Just on the other side of the bridge was a slow moving barge. Ugh! There was no room for us to pass and being the larger, less maneuverable vessel he had the right of way. For close to 10 miles we had to follow behind this barge (Captain Dean) at a screaming 4 knots. It’s not like we go very fast anyway at 7-8 knots but it really made us slow way down. I drove for a wee bit and took the opportunity for (you guessed it) tea and coffee. We passed by what was called the "little grand canyon" and other remarkable shorelines. After about 1-1/2 hours the barge pulled over to the right and stopped is engines, allowing us to pass. Actually, it turns out there was another barge coming downstream and this was the widest part of the creek to enable them to pass each other.
After we got ourselves back up to speed (haha) we soon came upon a big red thing being maneuvered by a tug. Turns out it was a dredger (as the tug captain informed us – oops) It was hooked up with miles of piping and other little red pieces of dredger. This was a very intriguing operation, the miles of pipe go up and over the banks, delivering and separating the silt and/or creek bottom then depositing the solid and pumping the water back into the 
creek. See, everyday it’s something new. We’ve anchored in Joe’s Bayou off the Choctawhatchee Bay for the evening. There are 3 other vessels anchored here, one is a rust bucket and the other two look abandoned. There would appear to be an airport close by, we’ve seen a few older bombers fly by with landing gear down. I caught a baby lizard today, and will keep it until he hit dry land. I think we caught his mama in Panama City and already put her ashore there. We were blessed with another beautiful sunset tonight.
creek. See, everyday it’s something new. We’ve anchored in Joe’s Bayou off the Choctawhatchee Bay for the evening. There are 3 other vessels anchored here, one is a rust bucket and the other two look abandoned. There would appear to be an airport close by, we’ve seen a few older bombers fly by with landing gear down. I caught a baby lizard today, and will keep it until he hit dry land. I think we caught his mama in Panama City and already put her ashore there. We were blessed with another beautiful sunset tonight. 
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