2016 Going East Adventure #3 - Palafox at Pensacola

May 4 - 5, 2016
Palafox at Pensacola




We left The Wharf mid morning to make the short trip to Pensacola.  The weather was too windy to enjoy Ft. McCree anchorage so we went on to Palafox.

What a trip!  We had front row seats straight down the ICW for the "Blue Angels".  It was simply amazing.  They dashed and darted and dove all around us for well over an hour.  My little camera on my phone did not do it justice. Thank goodness Diane was able to capture so many wonderful photos.

When we arrived to Palafox Captain Ron was there to meet us.  He is always so attentive.  This time he wound our lines in a cool pattern.


He is always so helpful.  We got settled and then had a great lunch at Jakos.  Dog friendly so Lexi was able to join us there.

We go the bikes down and took a short ride around old downtown and then later joined the other for dinner.  A great burger at the Tin Cow.  We completed the day by an evening at Rosie O'Grady's Dueling Piano show.  We had such a good time.  These musicians are great.  And three songs we recorded because Jake and Teya loves them.  "Sailing Away", "Three Little Birds" and "Brick House"

Palafox always turns out to be one of the most fun stops on our journey.  We got up and had coffee and chilled.  We left on our bikes for an early lunch at the "trailer park".  With plenty of time to spare we were right next door to the Tour company office.  We had a really nice guy was our guide for the downtown historic tour.  We were so excited about doing a Segway Tour.  We have always wanted to do it but seems every time we try they are sold out.  But we lucked out.  After about 10 minutes of instruction and practice and we were pros.  It was SO easy.  Literally, if you can stand up you have the balance to do this.

We were gone about an hour look at and hearing about the history of Pensacola.  After that we headed over to Joe Patti on our bikes.  We had our ice cream and got a couple of lbs of shrimp and had them steam it.  We now have lunch tomorrow while underway tomorrow.... and dinner on the hook!  Being Curtis and Diane's first time at Joe Patti we captured their experience.

After that we headed over to the Blue Wahoo's baseball game at the stadium just behind the marina. We were with the Crowders and Eddingtons and were walking  to stadium when a little golf cart taxi guy flagged us down and we jumped on and were delighted to have a new mode of transportation in Pensacola.

The game was a hoot.  And "our" team really kicked booty!  They had a grand slam... and held the Biloxi Shuckers to just a few points.  We left in the middle of the 7th so we did not get to see the ending.

We came back and rested met for docktails before we headed out.  The Eddingtons and we are leaving in the morning.

We will miss having the Wallachs with us.  But they won't be coming with us... at least now.


Got back to the boat... and am writing this now.  About to hit the hay.  5:00 will come very early in the morning... but we want an early start tomorrow.  To say that is was a whirlwind visit to Pensacola would be a "YUGE" understatement  :-)