The famous Port of Carrabelle.

We travelled 92 miles today to reach the port of Carrabelle on the Carrabelle River.

 

Carrabelle is the home of the "World's Smallest Police Station".

  The "World's Smallest Police Station" came into being on March 10, 1963. The city had been having problems with tourists making unauthorized long distance phone calls on its police phone. The phone was located in a call box that was bolted to a building at the corner of U.S. 98 and Tallahassee Street. Johnnie Mirabella, St. Joe Telephone's lone Carrabelle employee at the time, first tried moving the call box to another building, but the illegal calls continued.
Mirabella noticed that the policeman would get drenched while answering phone calls when it was raining. So when the telephone company decided to replace its worn out phone booth in front of Burda's Pharmacy with a new one, he decided to solve both problems at once by putting the police phone in the old booth.

 

It has been featured on television shows "Real People", "Ripley's Believe It or Not", "The Today Show", "Johnny Carson". It was featured in the movie "Tate's Hell" which was produced at Florida State University.

 

Tomorrow we leave for the longest and most intimidating voyage we will face on our Great Loop journey.

 

 

Good Morning from Panama City.

 

Awesome French Toast.

Florida agrees with her.

Tom giving lessons on the finer points of operating the ships new Dyson Vac.

Entering Carrabelle, a small old fishing village.

Our neighbors at dock.

Full moon for the long voyage tomorrow night.