Thursday, December 8 - On to Apalachicola

The weather looked pretty good, and we were tired of paying slip fees and going nowhere, so we headed out of Port St. Joe, back through the cut towards the GICWW.  This picture shows the bridge connecting Mexico Beach and Port St. Joe, we went under it to enter "the cut."

Everybody calls it "the cut" and it really is a canal cut through from St. Joseph Bay and the Gulf to the GICWW.    Not very scenic, but it works.  There were a few abandoned boats, but nothing much else.

This section of the waterway has lots of sand.  LOTS of sand!  It even shows up on our GPS map.  I knew Florida was sandy, of course, but this is a LOT of sand.

The GICWW took us through Lake Wimico, a huge lake that I had never heard of.  Nothing on any of the banks, no boats, just a big body of water.

Next stop was Apalachicola.  Of course we had heard about their famous oysters, so were anxious to stop and tour (eat) a bit.  We tried to pull in a marina where friends had stayed earlier, but the wind was pretty stiff and the marina didn't send anyone down to hep us with lines, so we  pulled across the river and into an anchorage area with five other boats.  It was scenic and peaceful, what more could we ask?