Bazar’s Second Wave

The final departure on Second Wave out of Dog River Marina headed for Orange Beach, AL. Its hard to believe that this is the last leg of our Great Loop. What an adventure! Nice flat water to start the day but our journey wouldn't have been complete without a little early morning fog. It looks like its going to be thick below. Once through the fog (which lasted about an hour) we couldn't have asked for a calmer morning to cruise down Mobile Bay. An amazing sunrise coming out of the fog. Of course we weren't alone out on the Bay. Shrimpers, dolphins and pelicans kept us company. Dolphins guided us to our destination. After crossing marker G125 near the mouth of Mobile Bay we could claim GOLD!! Here we are above celebrating the milestone and below is a photo of our Chartplotter as we crossed over the same travel path we covered in January. Well, I guess the celebrating is below. Smooth sailing now! B

Another gorgeous morning leaving our final anchorage. Off to Dog River Marina and Mobile Bay. Back to civilization after many days of being in very remote areas. This bridge is at the top of Mobile Bay and is our welcome back to salt water. The scenery becomes very industrial and the number of tows and barges are many.  This is a main hub and they are definitely here to work! Stay out of there way...the BIG guys always win! Even what appear to be a few military vessels are here. Looking back at Mobile, AL below. These ships above and below are each over 700 feet long. This is what our chart plotter showed coming into Mobile.  Everyone of those purple pentagons or triangles are tows, tankers or cargo ships...YIKES! They looked like they were on a collision course. Hopefully most are parked and they were! The pic below was a bit odd, the tow was pulling instead of pushing, which is more customary.  Headed out int