The Pensacola Yacht Club at the entrance of Bayou Chico it is a very nice facility mainly used by sailboats but there were a few power boats also.

Pensacola Light House it is still functioning and can bee seen from our anchorage

Gumbo at the Redfish Point Anchorage of Perdido Key lots of room here and 12' deep where we are anchored.

We took the dinghy in to walk the beach and look for shells. It is about a ten minute walk from the bay side shown here to the Gulf side

The Gulf side beach on Perdido Key,this goes on for miles in both directions. it is part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore so has no development no vehicles allowed except fo the four wheelers used by the Park Rangers

We only had 15 miles to go today so we got a late start, before leaving the marina we stopped to fill the diesel tanks and pumpout the holding tank. When that was done we headed out to Pensacola Bay, we did go out into the Gulf for a few miles just to see how the water was. Going out the pass brought back memories of coming out here in my fishing boat many times back in the 80's when our family used to spend a week here every summer. Once an aircraft carrier was leaving Pensacola we were fishing in the pass, a bit to close to it and the escort helicopters roared over to shoo us away.

Since the weather is nice today there were many boats of all descriptions out on the water, as usual, lots of people fishing not too many catching!

We anchored at Redfish Point and took the dinghy into the island where we walked across to the Gulf side. There are not as many nice shells here as there are on the South Florida beaches especially Sanibel Island, but the sand is more white here.

We had dinner on board, tomorrow we will have another short trip to the Orange beach area
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