Friday, January 23, 2009

Destin-Panama City

From Shalimar to Panama City was the longest run of this segment of the trip-68 miles. We traveled the entire length of Choctawatchee Bay, a 17 mile canal section, across West Bay and in to St. Andrew's Bay. Panama City Marina is the best facility we've been docked at. It even comes with an airshow, with Tyndall Air Force Base nearby. You can check the marina out at it's website. There is a live web cam at www.panamacity-fl.gov/pcmcam.htm
If you pan around until you see a shrimp boat tied at the end of pier 6, we are down about 5-6 slips facing the same direction. We purchased diesel here for $2.41, however we saw some marinas along the way still trying to sell their fuel for around $3.50. We averaged about 2 mpg from Mobile to Panama City.


"Not the Intracoastal Waterway you would picture in Florida"


"Activity around Panama City picks up, as you can see from these pictures"


"Still trying to catch those porpoises, almost"




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