We left the beautiful anchorage at this morning (pictured above) and went back to the Outback Crab Shack down river at 6 Mile Creek. It was much more busy because today is Saturday. The whole quarter mile long dock was full by mid-afternoon so we took the last 2 places on the far end of the dock. Getting in and out of the creek they're on is an adventure because there is only about 5 ft. of water in some places and we draw 4.5 ft. in Nonchalance. In addition, the 5 ft. areas are charted at 2 ft deep! Even though we found 5 ft., it's strange going over the spots marked 2 ft. on the charts.

Of course, we got a silly picture with the stuffed alligators at the Outback Crab Shack.....

We had a late lunch and I ordered their specialty, for which they're "almost world famous", the Boiled Platter. This is actually only the "1/2 boiled platter", which I couldn't begin to finish so we'll have lots of shrimp, crawfish, taters and sausage pieces to save for lunch tomorrow. The boiled platter is actually quite good. It tastes mostly like Zitrian's Seafood Boil, but is probably their own version. They also have a heart-stopping fried platter with an equal mountain of fried seafood and veggies. Kathy just got the fried softshell crabs.
Around sunset, we were still so stuffed that we just had drinks and crackers and cheese on the aft deck instead of dinner. We had to put the screens up because of BUGS at dusk. We played the board game Sequence, supplied by the Stones. It was fun and the girls won one game and the men won the other. The girls won the practice round too, but we wouldn't let them claim that they won the night.
This picture is actually from yesterday when we were on Murphy's Creek, one of the recent highlights of the trip. The picture was taken by the Stones as we were rouonding one of the many hairpin turns on the creek. Today we cruised by gthe Murphy's Creek cutoff and stayed on the big river.

At night when I took Daisy for her last walk before bed time, she looked over the side of the dock and thought that all of the floating weeds covering the water was just grass, so she jumped down to the "grass" only to find herself suddenly swimming! When she hit the water she made a big splash and a very large alligator that was resting or hiding in those same weeds just 15 ft. away made a huge thrashing in the water, probably just because we scared it, but thoughts of it eating Daisy immediately came to mind. I just reached down and grabbed Daisy's collar and I don't know else (I just grabbed DOG) and hauled her up onto the dock. She shook off and went on for her nightly walk, but after I dried her off back at the boat, she was cringing around for a while.

Tomorrow, we'll cruise back down to the Jacksonville area with the Loose Stones and stay at Lamb's Marina where I wil get my new sea stairs, buff up the paint scratches and on Tuesday we'll probably go to Amelia Island, which is supposed to be beautiful.