We never tired of watching the wonder of nature all around us - taking joy in watching seagulls and pelicans in flight and dolphin gently rolling as they swim past the boat in this quaint little city.
We continued our exploration of Apalachicola today since the winds this morning were blowing17-25, it was not a time to be in open water. We met up with Mark, Joe, Donna and Jeff who were interested in the Maritime Museum that we had seen yesterday.
As we walked along Water Street we stopped to watch the activity at one of the local oyster plants. The oysters were tumbled in a cylinder under running water to clean the mud off the exterior first. Then the workers sorted out any bad or open oysters before they were shucked and the shells were dumped by conveyer belt. 
By noon the gang returned to their boats and Truant and Wish set out to cross to Dog Island since the winds were predicted to diminish throughout the day. We stayed behind to watch multiple football games, the most important being the FSU-FL game. The final stage of our adventure in Apalachicola was to watch the workers shuck our oysters as we sampled them while watching the game. It is amazing to eat such fresh seafood. 
The Gator win over the Noles was a sweeeeeeeeet end to the evening as we returned to the boat to watch more football!
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