The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-05-03
Saturday. , P. NJ.


Dick and I took the Peep O. Day over
| to Gull Point this morning for mail
| and supplies, the latter to carry US
! home. The weather was good and
the Bay smooth, but we left the others
| in camp to save time Shortly after
we reached Gull Point It commenced
| to breeze up and by the time | had
completed shopping, including the pur
chase of all the bread and rolls in
stock, it was blowing half a gale from
the southeast and the bay between us.
and Camp was very yeasty.
! However, we pulled out and while
| Dick was STEERING as close to DeViFs
Point beacon as safe. I made every
| thing secure allow and aloft for a fine
| rolling match.
The rolling was all anticipated. and
more, with considerable pitching
| thrown in for good measure, and right
here will remark that it has always
| been a mystery to me how the seas
can be so big in such comparatively
shallow water as there is in EsCambia
Bay and East Bay. The water is only
twelve to fifteen feet deep but the seas
are larger than we have in the lower
Bay pensacola Bay) where there is
forty or fifty feet Of water. ! would
like somebody Chat I could beGeve)
to explain this to me. The seas up
here are not only mans size, but they
are quick on the trigger. They are
quite intelligent-and inquisitive. /
admit that sounds like an exagger-
alton and maybe it is, but it is a fact
that some of those seas came aboard
us, ran all around the deck, jumped
into our laps and crawled into our
pockets.
After reaching the vicinity Of the
oyster shoals we Stacked sheets"
some, and my, how we did romp alonS
with the wind and seas a little abaft
abeam! Dick and I sat fat on the
deck but from there we could see over
tho "a hin o1ite often enough 10 steer
our course.
Dick and I voted the seas to be fhe
biggest we had ever seen inside, and
consequently. the sail, the finest we
had ever had.
After blowing hard for two or three
hours il commenced to calm down and
some squalls are building up over in
East Bay 1t has been about the long
est spell OF westerly winds 1 remem-
Der.
At Gull Point I learned that it was
81 degrees yesterday in Pensacola,
which accounts for the heat we eN-
perienced at Florida Town and on the
return trip.
1t is lucky we were not here, for the
Missus would certainly have held the
End O. Nowhere responsible. She
agrees that this is a pretty nice place
and says that if she had nurse,
washerwoman. a good house. her own
bed, and City water, that she wouldn't
mind camping here. for little while.
Tom. poor little Tom" by dint Of
repeatedly rolling out Of his cart has
convinced the Missus that he doesn't
like the cart and now she is keeping
him in a meat box.
Last night. after dark and before
moonrise cit is two or three days past
full moon) we all sat on the beach
and were interested in following the
fittings OF the automobile headlights
In the hills on the other side Of the
Bay, six or eight miles away. b, who
ia auto-wise, pretended to know whose
the different lights were, and identi-
fed one that seemed to remain station
airy a long time, as Mr.. So and Sos,
and gave us a string of why's. He
made out what appeared to me TO be
a clear case. 1t was absolutely one
sided. I sighed. for 1 hate to see an