Boating on Lemon Bay to Stump Pass

Monday we took the boat out for one last boat ride of the season.  It was a perfect boating day: warm without being hot, and sunny with occasional relief from a passing cloud.

Lemon Bay is about a 20 minute idle speed ride from the dock.  It's a nice ride, where we can look at houses and yards and all the boats and docks along the way.

Many mangrove islands dot the channel and cover more than half of the edges of Lemon Bay.

Captain Ron

That tiny fin is from one of the dolphins we saw on the bay.

One man's idea of "idle speed" - required for the vicinity of the bridges.

One of the resident pelicans watching for a fish.

Oh oh - sailboat being towed

This one took advantage of the light breeze.

So did this one

Lots of kayakers in the channel behind Stump Pass

Paddleboarders braving the wake from passing boats

Parasailing above the gulf

One of many osprey nests on an uninhabited island

The spit at Stump Pass had a lot of boats even on a Monday after the season is over.

On a calm day, we ventured out into the Gulf for a ways.

We pulled up on the beach on the bay side and then walked across to the Gulf side

Waves gently rolling in - Water Temp is up to 70 degrees already.