Excitement on the water on the way to Ft. Walton Beach

This morning we left Pensacola.  I was sad to leave Gus and Row on Summerland.  They are staying til Saturday.

We had two exciting events as we traveled:  At 9:38 the Coast Guard sent out a message which I am paraphrasing:  Pan-pan...Pan-pan...Pan-pan.  An F-16 jet has been reported downed 50 miles south of Cape San Blas.  Any mariners in the area, please provide aid and call the Coast Guard.  (They repeated the message every hour.  We never heard what happened.)

Later in the morning  a group of dolphins played around Aunt Aggie.  They jumped and flipped and swam beside us.  Two of them seemed to be racing the boat.  It was delightful.

We are tied to the outside of the Ft. Walton Beach City docks.  There are about six looper boats here.
The water gets shallow near shore, so we couldn't fit into a slip.  Thus, we are tied across the back of two slips.  We are expecting a lot of wind from the north tonight, so we are well tied.  In the morning we will have a ballet of boats moving to leave.

Ft. Walton is another smart town:  They have free city docks to encourage boaters to come and walk into town.  All of us strolled in this afternoon.  We found a cupcake store, a doggie bakery, and a Publix.  We bought biscuits and sausages for breakfast.  Breakfast is our most boring meal.

This is the Little Church at Vandegriff Park.  It was the original office of the First Methodist Church, circa 1949.