Friday, April 26, 2013

Friday April 27, 2013
Quietwater Beach Anchorage Santa Rosa Island   to Palafox Marina Pensacola
10 miles today.
We had a rough  night at the anchor last night, the north wind incerased just after dark and shifted around to the East which made it have a strong effect where we were anchored open to the east. It was rough but the anchor held well all night long I did wake up several times during the night to check it. When we pulled the anchor up I found it had caught a long anchor rope which had been on the bottom it had some chain but no anchor.
It was choppy out in the sound and bay on the short trip to Palafox. Palafox is a nice marina right in downtown Pensacola We walked around town then went to a seafood market where we had lunch.
After that walked around town some more then I washed the boat.

To see our location click on the link below

http://www.findmespot.com/mylocation/?id=BrRGc/30.40343N/87.21411W

Some of today's pictures below

All of this rope was brought up from the bottom on our anchor. I cut off the chain and knotted part and wound up with 150' of good 1/2" rope

Sunrise over another cruiser annchored at Quietwater beach, the water has gotten choppy.

This huge house overlooks the ICW on Santa Rosa Sound

This is Technips Global 1200 heavy lift crane ship doing some work at pensacola harbor 

 

Sunset at palafox Marina

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