Farmdale Bayou Anchorage

This blog will chronicle our (Pat and Patty Anderson's)

cruising adventures on the Great Loop!

DAY 202 - October 19, 2017

Bay-ou ~ (in the southern US) a marshy outlet of a lake or river.

We have anchored the last two nights in bayous. Farmdale Bayou is a very large, very shallow bayou right off the ICW. We picked it because the Active Captain entry says there is a beach for landing pets. Well, sort of - at  high tide the beach is pretty hard to find! It was about 15 feet long and maybe three feet deep between the water's edge and the marsh grasses! But it was there, and was sufficient!

We love the C-Dory for its ability to anchor in two or three feet. The depths in Farmdale Bayou near the entrance are between one and three feet, and we can't navigate in one foot! So there was a bit of probing and backing up involved! We found a spot about three feet deep reasonably close to the little bit of beach, so all was good!

Farmdale Bayou - the entrance is at the top, and the large part is to the rleftand down, not in screenshot.

I took Baxter to the little beach with a long leash, intending to stay in the kayak. But he got out, went left, then right, then hopped back in the kayak, so I decided I needed to get out. When I got out, he assumed the pointing position and froze. My guess is that there was something in the marsh grasses that put him on high alert. Not wanting to wait around to find out what it was, we both got back in the kayak and hightailed it for the boat! Trust the dog, especially a Lhasa - they were the Dali Llama's palace guard dogs in Tibet not because they are ferocious (anybody who has seen Baxter knows that ferocious is one thing he is NOT) but because they have an innate sense of when something or somebody is not right.  We trust Baxter!

Back on Daydream, I fired up the Meets app on the iPad.  Meets is part of the AGLCA mobile app, and shows other Loopers where you are and shows you where other Loopers are on a map.  A bit later, my phone rang. It was a poor connection of course but we got enough out of it to know it was the people on the trawler just out in front of us calling because they saw us on Meets! We are both headed to Apalachicola tomorrow, and are both staying at the Municipal Marina, so we will be more formally introduced tomorrow!

I also received a call from C-Brat Jim Widmann, user jennykatz on C-Brats. He lives in Naples, FL, and we will figure out a time and place to get together when we get a bit down the west coast of Florida, Should be fun!

We also did a little calculating of remaining distance until we cross our wake in La Belle. From Apalachicola, it looks like we have only abut 420 miles to go. We are closing in on the end of our Loop here, folks! Tine to order the Gold Burgee!

We had a nice view back through the pines at Farmdale Bayou tonight. This is really a very scenic anchorage!

Looking back toward  the ICW through the pines at Farmdale Bayou!