Tuesday  May 7, 2013
Lulu's Homeport Marina ICW mile 155 to Gulfport Municipal Yacht Harbor ICW mile 70 + 4 miles
89 miles today

We got up early and left Lulu's at 6 am to take advantage of the light winds forecast for today. We travelled West on the Alabama Canal the part of the ICW that goes into Mobile Bay from the East it was like glass. We crossed the bay it was a nice ride a very light chop for the crossing and then on to the Mississippi sound where conditions were nice until we were south of Biloxi mid afternoon and the winds picked up to about 15 MPH from the West. The next few hours to Gulfport MS were bumpy but without incident. We entered the Gulfport marina behind two boats from the Houston area. The marina is new replacing the one which was destroyed by a hurricane several years ago. It is very nice and big there must be a couple of hundred slips being new quite a few are empty.
We took the short walk into town for dinner.
The plan is to leave here tomorrow, Wednesday, morning and travel to a marina near the Industrial Lock in New Orleans, Spend the night there and cross the Miss. River Thursday. tomorrow's forecast looks good, so we'll see how it goes.

To see our location at Gulfport Yacht Harbor please click on the link below:
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                                       The ICW at sunrise, the bridge is right next to Lulu's

the ICW was like glass out to Mobile Bay

The Dauphin Island Bridge at the west end of Mobile Bay conditions on the bay were very good.

The  water was murky from being churned up by the wind action the last week or so.

                             Westbound tow on the Miss. Sound conditions were still very good

One of the Classics at Lulu's