While we were visiting the museum we had lunch in the Cubi Café inside the museum. There used to be an officer’s club at Cubi Point Naval Station in the Philippines until 1993 when US installations were closed there. Cubi Point was famous throughout the Navy as a liberty port. The former bar in the officer’s club there was recreated at the museum in Pensacola after the Philippines bases were closed. They had a history of displaying plaques from groups temporarily deployed to Cubi Point, and these were saved and are displayed in the museum snack bar. The photos below show just a handful of the plaques. I actually knew a few of the names shown there, and TK and Ray knew many more.
We also had some chance to observe local wildlife near the marina/resort. The heron shown in the photos below was a regular visitor near our boat. Sinbad was startled by him many times when he would spook as we were walking on the docks.
One Saturday afternoon there was a Mardi Gras flotilla planned for the waterway. We were in a prime location to see the festivities as the decorated boats passed immediately behind us throwing strings of beads to those on shore. Most of those ended up into the water, though with our group on the boat we were much closer to the action and managed to collect a fair amount of loot. Some of the decorated boats are shown below.
After our brief vacation from our vacation we will continue on east across the Florida panhandle.
Adventures on Inshallah 