Shortly after pulling up anchor at Rabbit Island, we are motoring across the Mississippi Sound leaving Louisiana in our wake on our way to Biloxi, MS. Not enough wind to sail or motorsail. Chris plans the route cutting the corners of the GIWW track through the Sound to save time. We also have Monarch butterflies flying about us all day. Arrival at the Point Cadet Marina fuel dock is early afternoon, where we find Sandy and Robin have just made it by car themselves.
This is the first area we see the impact of Hurricane Katrina (2005). Vegetation has recovered, just about all the wreckage has been removed, but most marinas are closed, offices are in trailers, and there are quite a few gaps between building and homes.
Dinner is in Ocean Springs at a fantastic pizza place called the Mellow Mushroom. Chris is so insistent it was once called Moe's Mushroom he asks the wait staff if they changed the name recently, while Sandy and Jenny are reading the back of the menu that states 3 college buddies started the Mellow Mushroom back in 1974 - Chris, you are just wrong!
Tonight, we fall asleep to the snapping and popping sounds coming through the hull of oysters feeding. And yes, we remembered set the clock back for daylight savings time.
