Still at Panama City Municipal Marina

We are still here at Panama City Municipal Marina. Elaine and I have spent time with my mother and John. They have been showing us all around the area. They have also have provided us with transportation to West Marine and Wal-Mart. These are two essential locations.

 We went to Pier Park in Panama City Beach. This is a real neat area of shops, restaurants, and bars located on the with sand beach and clear water. Elaine and Ann did some shopping while Greg and I did some people watching from the benches.

After watching people for awhile, Greg and I found the Back Porch and $2.00 happy hour prices for their drinks. We didn't have to forced to hard. The place was air conditioned and had some great Rum Punches and you could not beat the price.

My mom and John joined us a little while later and back onto the street we went looking for the tourist bargains that are everywhere. (sure).


After shopping it was time for some walking on the beach and in the water. The beaches are sugar white and the water clear with a lite emerald tint.  Even found a reminder of my old job. This is a great job for a deputy.




We were planning to sail to Port St. Joe and to Apalachicola for a visit. Port St. Joe did not have room for two large boats at this time so we decided to stay here and just drive there.

Port St Joe is nice but Apalachicola is a really cool place to visit. We do plan on taking the boat there another time and staying awhile. It is a real old fishing and oyster town. The oysters from here are delicious and are shipped around the world. There is a place here called the Tin Shed. It has every kind of Nautical item you could want both new and used. It looks like they salvage anything useful from ships, yachts and small boats. A great place for and boater to visit.  We did get to stop in and eat at the world famous " Boss Oyster" The food and service was very good. Of course I had grilled oysters. They had a sampler that had four types of there grilled oysters.






Took a day and dinked over to St Andrews to pick up an item for a friend. It is a three mile across the bay and it was a little choppy. But it was a fast but rough ride. Stopped at St Andrews Marina to use there dinghy dock. This area has a lot of charter fishing boats available for any type of offshore or bay fishing you can imagine. Even caught myself a shark while there.






The Panama City Municipal Marina is in downtown Panama City historic district. You can walk from the marina to many shops, restaurants and bars. The area is not a tourist area so the prices are normal and not inflated. They have a lot of different events that go on there to like Friday Fest( hot rods, custom cars, vendors and bands), antique walks, flea markets, farmers market, and seafood market.

Saturday nights the restaurants have live music outside so we walked to Millie's for some cold beer, fellowship with friends and fellow cruisers. The music was good and we stayed till the band quit.

We are paid up till July 25th so we do not have to be in a hurry. But we are thinking about leaving and heading to Pensacola between Friday the 19th to Monday the 22nd.

Right now there is another thunder storm raining all over us. At least the boat is clean.