Dog River Marina (Day Fifteen) - 12/3/10

Final day at Dog River Marina. We have decided to leave tomorrow morning without the repair for our fuel leak. Cummins never did show up or return our calls so we have put diapers under the leak and are heading out. I called Port St. Joe and they indicated that they could get someone there to fix it so we are not waiting any longer. Now our plans are to spend Saturday night at Orange Beach, AL, Sunday night at Destin, FL and Monday night at Panama City before getting to Port St. Joe on Tuesday and hopefully picking up a rental car and starting home the same day. We are so ready to move! Today we tried to stay busy with Ricki wrapping Christmas gifts and I cleaned decks, charted our course and got the outside stuff ready to travel. As near as I can figure, we will go about 15 miles tomorrow down the Mobile shipping channel before turning east on the ICW and going another 25 miles (+/-) to Bear Point Marina. Since we are leaving reasonably early, we will probably stop at Lulu's for lunch. Lulu is Jimmy Buffet's sister and we have heard that the food is great so we just have to give it a try. The loopers traveling ahead of us have some terrific pictures of dolphins playing in their bow wake so maybe we can be as lucky as well and get some pictures. December in southern Alabama is something we are not used to at all. Daytime temps are mid 60's to low 70's and we haven't seen any snow at all. I think we could like this!