Orange Beach, AL

Bob, John, Joanie and I left Mobile about 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday for Orange Beach, AL. We traveled about 60 miles and stayed at a marina further off the Intercoastal Waterway than we usually do because we needed to have the CAT guys back again and this marina was convenient for them. One of the marine power display units wasn't working on the flybridge so Bob wanted to have that fixed. It turned out we needed both of them replaced. Joanie got the "warm" job today watching the display from the pilothouse just to make sure everything was ok with both engines. John, Bob and I were "enjoying" the weather from the flybridge!!


John has been waiting for something to do and when we were settled in at Orange Beach Marina he got to wash the boat.




















The Caterpillar man came right to the boat later on Tuesday afternoon. He couldn't fix the problem. Two guys came on Wednesday and tried to fix it. They had to order parts which we could get on Friday (Thursday is Thanksgiving). Friday brought the same 2 guys and they were there until 3:00 but finally the displays are fixed.


We were lucky to be in such a nice marina for 4 days. It has some extremely large fishing boats and a great restaurant. We basically had the marina to ourselves for the whole time. The ship's store closed on Wed. afternoon and they didn't open up again until Monday. Business is down and with Thanksgiving they didn't think it was worth being open. They gave us the keys to their courtesy car so Joanie and I could go shopping and the four of us just drove around to check out the area.




















Thanksgiving was the usual relaxing day. We all enjoyed the nice weather by taking a walk or napping, went for a drive around the area and found a restaurant that served a turkey dinner. Bob and John were very disappointed they didn't serve cranberries with the turkey and didn't let the waiter forget it!!

THANKSGIVING