Dog River Marina - Mobile, AL


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 into the Bay and another open water passage.


Docked at Dog River Marina; a rather rustic place.



The water is about two feet deep on the other side of that post below. Without local knowledge or an accurate chart you wouldn't know it until your boat stopped moving...


Shrimpers are serious here. This one came steaming by about 15 feet off our starboard side at the dock.


We were told that we would be welcome at the Mobile Yacht Club for dinner.  It was the only restaurant choice in the area. I'm glad we had this option, the food was delicious!


Very nice pool area looking over the Bay.




A very impressive trophy case displays prizes from many past regattas.


And looky there the HCYC burgee shows up again!!!  Once in Chicago and now in Mobile.  Proud to have been a member of the Hill Country Yacht Club and to now see our former burgee in many other places other than Canyon Lake, Texas.


Club burgess were everywhere.


Brent's shrimp creole below.


In addition to Yacht Club burgees, the walls around the Mobile YC are decorated with the portraits of past Commodores. However, if a Commodore doesn't bother to have their photo taken then their name and year of service is placed in the frame below a picture of Earnest Borgnine. There were a few of these.



Today is the big day...it's the day we cross our wake and go Gold!  The photo below was taken the next morning before sunrise as we prepared to pull away from the dock.  I won't miss the getting up in the dark and being underway at first light.


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