Beautiful day here in Kingfisher Bay Marina. "the Bles-sing" is fueled up and ready to head south in the morning. Happy Halloween!

Walked all over Demopolis and saw some historical sights. We plan to fuel up today which will require us to leave the slip in a stiff breeze, putt over to the fuel dock in shallow water, dock in a cross wind, back out when we leave and back into our slip again. Looking forward to it... not.

The Bles-sing and her crew made it through Zeta in ship shape. Winds could have been a lot worse. We were lucky and it is beautiful here today.  For a week now we have been hanging out, performing a few maintenance items and going to nightly happy hours where we have learned so much about looping and met some great new friends. We will be buddy boating for a while with 3 or 4 others when we leave here Sunday November 1st.  Plan to be in Fairhope Alabama mid next week and on to Gulf Shores from there.

 After 9 hurricanes we thought surely we will be good to sneak down into the gulf a little early. So much for that theory. Looks like Zeta has other plans as it is taking aim at the gulf coast and will likely generate high winds and big waves in Mobile Bay. So we wait. The current plan is to leave here Friday the 30th. Surely this will be the last storm of the season... or will it? 

Boats were streaming in here all day yesterday. We are all in the same boats.

Weather was not permitting. Staying put in Kingfisher Bay Marina to wait out the rain. We will try to depart again tomorrow. Got the new anchor system installed yesterday and washed the boat down. Another day in port will give us time to do a few more maintenance things and relax. 

We had fun at the pool and visiting with Jan and Steve Young (Forever Young), who are good friends from Lake Barkley, ended up in the slip right next to us!

The next leg is on! The October birthday cruise for Regina and Doug is almost underway. We arrived back in Demopolis yesterday and will target Saturday to leave Kingfisher Bay Marina to be back on the water and heading south, weather permitting.  Today the crew will be working on several maintenance items including changing out and upgrading our anchor and rode. Pretty important stuff as it looks like we will be on the hook the next three nights, after we launch, on the river. Stay tuned!