Tuesday - October 26,2010

Sessions were on the trip form Mobile across to Florida and down to the Keys. There are two ways to get from Mobile to Florida, both involve setting out from Carabelle, Florida. The first involves going around what they call the Big Bend but it takes about 3 or 4 or more days depending on weather. The second involves an 18 hour run across the Gulf to Tarpon Springs or to Clearwater. Again you have to wait for a weather window of 24 hours but once you've done it, it is done. I think we will do the crossing as the former is through shallow water and I think my draft is too high.

After the sessions were over some of the people went into town to do some shopping. We stayed behind and read. At 6 we caught the bus into town to attend a country music concert arranged by the AGLCA. The group was called Nashville South and they were quite good. The warm up group was a father playing a guitar and his two 10 year old daughters playing the mandolin and the bass fiddle. It was all instrumental and the girls were quite talented. Another singer, Briana Davis was brought on who was also quite talented and who sang a lot of her compositions along with her mother and husband. All in all, it was a good evening.