I'd never slept at anchor on a sailboat before. Almost three weeks in, we've spent eight nights at four anchorages. Read more about them and see the lovely sunsets in this article.
Then you're not on a boat. Haha. We met a couple at a marina in Gulf Shores--they are retired and live in Nebraska but keep their boat down here. After the wife showed us the bathrooms and we returned to their boat (a powerboat), the husband said there had been a disaster while she was gone but that he'd handled it. He chuckled and said, just another day with a boat. We could relate! When your home is jostling around in the damp all the time, things are bound to break. Read more about what we've encountered two weeks in.
Hey there! After Slidell, we traveled to Bay St. Louis. We hung out at the beaches both days we were in town. On the second day we took a walk around town, the shops were cute, and the town was a total beach town. We got ice cream from Creole Creamery: dessert at Tiffany’s and nectar sherbet, my two favorite flavors! It was very nice. I would recommend going there, even if you don’t sail.
Let’s start at the beginning. We are a family who are on a journey of a lifetime: sailing to the Bahamas! We have been preparing our boat, a Catalina 42, for this trip for many months. The boat is far from homey, but is cozy, and is slowly getting to that point! Right now we are in Slidell, yesterday we sailed across Lake Pontchartrain!
It was very nice. I would recommend going there, even if you don’t sail.