• 45NorthAmericas Great LoopTraveler
    1Looking northwest. The red arrow shows our mooring
    1Rubbish comes down the creek and builds up around the boatIf it's a bike, we can fix it. We'll just throw it in the tree, and presto!A Taphouse, with a good bar menu (I know!)...Oops... how did that get in here? No need for everyone to know my favourite burb...If it's open tomorrow, we might give it a look.A modest Florida mansionA couple of blocks of part of the very nice Apalachicola downtown retail, bar, and restaurant areaThis is the Covnty Covrt Hovse...A nicely-presented hostelery with a nice restaurant (I think)...You can get anything you want at the Raw Bar restaurant"A funny old bird is the pelican. It's beak can hold more than its belly can..." Nice one, Preston!A modest Florida mansionThis little place is open from 0600 to 1100 each day, and is directly across from our mooringHole In The Wall breakfast bar... right next to our boatThe bridge over Apalachicola Bay connecting to St Georges IslandA lovely beach out on St. Georges Island, and great public infrastructure - shelter, BBQs etcBeach houses along the St Georges Island seafrontSpanish Moss in Tallahassee1I had to show this... a level crossing on the highway back from Tallahassee to Apalachicola1Herewith the Florida State Capitol Building in Tallahassee

    Day 38/39: At Apalachicola

    Nov 10–13 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    Our first morning is brisk. We awake to a fine, clear day but with a bitterly cold northwesterly wind. 8C, "feels like 4C". You can say that again! Preston has looked closely at the forecast and believes we'll be here until at least Wed, for favourable weather for our 24-hr run across Florida's 'armpit' to Tampa.

    Rosie goes to explore the town. I spend several hours updating the Blog and eventually go off to do the same, subsequently gravitating to a craft beer taphouse. It's freezing cold in the wind, and warm away from it.

    Our second morning (Tues) dawns the same as yesterday, but even colder. At 0845 my weather app is showing Apalachicola as being 5C ('Feels Like -2C'), expected High of 15C.

    I get a local taxi (the only one) out to the airfield where the rental car agency lives. With the car safely in hand, we three (Preston comes along... thankfully) set off to explore St Georges Island and then we drive inland to Tallahassee, the state capital, where Rosie is keen to see some architecture from the 'oldendays'.

    With that done, we head back to Apalachicola--buying and eating boiled peanuts on the way--then we do a last grocery shop and it's back to the boat. Then back out to the airport to return the car, our friendly taxi man back into town and Rosie and I go out for dinner, which ends up being at the Taphouse.

    Tomorrow... the Gulf!    Read more