Our friends and neighbors, the Scotts, took our family out on their boat last weekend. \u00a0It was so kind of them to offer; their boat seats 4 adults and 2 kids pretty well, but no more passengers than that can fit, so we had to find a weekend that didn’t involve other visitors.<\/p>\n
We here thought we were going to have a visitor this weekend, my girlfriend Susan from Virginia, so we had said “No, thank you.” to the invitation at first. Susan canceled at the last minute because of Issac impacting her return trip. So then we were able to fit in a trip just before hunkering down and preparing for Issac.<\/p>\n
Michael and Cathy gave us a choice: would we like to go east to Crab Island or west towards Pensacola Pass. \u00a0Cathy told us there was an area similar to Destin’s Crab Island towards the west at the mouth of Pensacola Bay. \u00a0Since we had been to Crab Island before, and I’m such a sucker for new experiences, we elected to go west.<\/p>\n
We put the boat in the water at about 10am, and it took about 90 minutes to get to our location. \u00a0The trip took us past Gulf Islands National Seashore<\/a>, Fort Pickens<\/a> and much of NAS Pensacola<\/a>. \u00a0When we docked, we were in view of the Pensacola Lighthouse<\/a> and the Museum of Naval Aviation<\/a>. \u00a0The map below shows where we were — on the shore just west of the mouth of the Pensacola Bay, along a channel called Pensacola Pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n