December 5, 2022

Barber Marina, Elberta, Alabama

We've got lots to do today to get ready for the boat to be stored.  We spent several hours going through every storage area and gathering items that take up space and we haven't used and bring them home in the Spring.

Our clothes are not dry from being washed yesterday, so we are hanging them on chairs, rails, wherever we can, to get them to dry before noon Tuesday.  It is cloudy today with hardly any breeze, so it is not an ideal day to air dry clothes.  We are hoping the sun will appear and take care of it.

After we organized the inside of the boat, Kip dropped the radar tower, and we took the kayak down.  The marina charges by the foot, so we need to condense as much as we can as far as height.  It is amazing how squatty the boat looks without them.

Kip went on a quick dinghy ride to get a closer look at the lady in the water.  It is amazing how many people boat in, take pictures of her, and leave.  It is quite the attraction, I guess!

We went out on the kayak for a while, and then took the dinghy several miles to Pirate's Cove for lunch.  After lunch, we took the dinghy into the bayou backwaters to look around.  The humidity is 99%, so back at the boat we moved the clothes into the boat and turned the heater on to try and get them dry.

After I got up from a nap 😏, Kip wanted to show me what he found while I was sleeping.  We walked outside of the marina (in the dark and in very thick fog) and the grounds were amazing.  Old cement benches with lions on them, sculptures of Pelicans, sea horses, and dolphins, and even a water fountain with horses, lions, and other sculptures on it.  We walked a bit further and cut across the grass to figure out what the circle of blue lights were.  Kip saw big holes in the ground and said, "I think we need to get out of this area" and we turned around and came back.  

We were full of burgers and fries from lunch, so we didn't eat supper we just snacked a bit.  The refrigerator is now turned off, so tomorrow we will need to clean out any food items that will spoil and toss them.  

We are happy with what we got done today, and hope everything goes well tomorrow when they take the boat out and put it into storage.