Sunday, November 9, 2014
On Sunday we enjoyed a nice slow morning, did some chores around the boat and I went for a nice long jog/walk. I've been so sedentary I'm surprised my legs still work! In the afternoon Jim, Mimi, Jeff and I took in the USS Alabama, a battleship from the WW2 that is now located in Mobile and open as a museum available to tour. It was a GREAT complement to our WW2 museum day in New Orleans.
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| Boys and their toys |
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| USS Alabama. HUGE! |
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| Submarine |
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| Hand-crank controls. |
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| Cozy quarters |
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| Not so easy getting out of there with any grace. |
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This was an amazing surprise. 1864 submarine used by the
Confederates in the Civil War. Powered by eight men.
Check out the Hunley's history.
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Tomorrow is the last day of our week at Turner's Marina. The weather looks good for the next few days, with light winds, sunny skies and highs around seventy, so we'll shove off and begin travelling along the Intracoastal Waterway towards Florida. Apparently, there are many excellent anchorages along this leg of the journey so we're looking for interesting bayous with lots of wildlife for Jeff to shoot with his new "big-boy" zoom camera lens and also long, white, sandy beaches just begging to be walked along.
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