DESTIN, FLORIDA

INDEPENDENCE 2005

June 30, 2005

Made it safely to Florida.

View from the hotel room - Gulf of Mexico



Ocean View....

JULY 1, 2005

Morning clouds drift over the Gulf of Mexico...



 MORNING CUMULUS BILLOWING  ABOVE THE GULF OF MEXICO :)  Beautiful!!!!

Cumulus

Ok so a BEAUUUTTTIIIFFFUUULLL morning in Destin.  I got up too early though.  I thought it was 10 a.m. :) it actually was like 6:30 in the morning.  Oh well - at least there was a photo-op out staring me in the face :)!  You have got to love the Gulf of Mexico.  I can hear the sound of the waves hitting the beach!  Soothing and peaceful.  

HAPPY CANADA DAY FRIENDS!!!!!  

CELEBRATE YOUR FREEDOM

Erick up in Toronto with his celebration shirt :)

Morning Ocean Thunderstorm


Raining out over the Gulf

We decorated out patio :) heh

FESTIVE :)

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY AND HAPPY CANADA DAY!





Joey at the beach in front of the hotel

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Some rain has moved in :) Sooooooo War of the Worlds here we come :)  Hoping for a GREAT movie!

The movie :)

Ok well War of the Worlds was OK.  I give it a B-  The ending sucked.  :) heh  It was full of action though.  It did have me on the edge of my seat for about an hour.  I would imagine that would pretty much be realistic to how an actual attack would happen.  heh  People would run and scream and kill each other.  Everyone would have to fight for their own lives and their families.  Not the best movie of the year.  But a good one...none-the-less.

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Joey in front of Crab Shack...nice place to eat :)  I had Maui Maui and Shrimp.

Joey



That would be me...all red from the sun today.  Eek.  heh

Scenic Highway 98 - runs all the way through Destin.   You can 
drive this area and see the most beautiful houses.  
Amazing views of the ocean as well!



Joey on the boardwalk here in Destin.  This is near the Crab Shack.
Gulf of Mexico in the background :)

Saturday...

Spent most of the day at the beach :)  Played Jungle Golf as well.  HOT outside!  Lots of clouds this afternoon and some big thunderstorms to our north.  Severe thunderstorm warning on the cell just north of Destin.  We are hoping for a nice storm here.  It might cool things down a little bit.  Windy...windy today.  

Kristy is on her way down here from Birmingham.  She should be here around 1 a.m. tomorrow morning.  Can't wait to see her!!!!!

Tracking a possible tropical system moving through the Caribbean.  This could move into the Gulf of Mexico as early this coming week.  The system has the potential to become a tropical depression and or storm.  

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Found two new hurricane books (and was told about a third...will have to search for that one)

Ivan's Wake Book by Pensacola News Journal

and

Savage Storms

Still searching for the following book
In the Path: Glimpse into the Florida Treasure Coast 2004 Hurricane Season

Sunday July 3rd, 2005

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY EVE EVERYONE :)

Went parasailing early this afternoon.  Nice view from up in the air :)


Our hotel from the Gulf of Mexico



Joey sitting on the boat getting ready to Parasail




Up Up and AWAY

WAVES are big today :)





HAPPY FACE ABOVE THE CITY OF DESTIN :)

Joey - parasailing July 3rd - 2005

High above Destin, Florida






Gulf of Mexico...Destin, Florida





Coming in for a landing...



Kristy made it into town :)  We are going to hang out with her now.

TROPICAL DEPRESSION NUMBER 3 FORMS IN THE CARIBBEAN

000 WONT41 KNHC 032018 DSAAT 
SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT 
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 
415 PM EDT SUN JUL 3 2005 

REPORTS FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE THE AREA OF DISTURBED WEATHER CENTERED JUST EAST OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA HAS DEVELOPED INTO TROPICAL DEPRESSION THREE...AND ADVISORIES WILL BE INITIATED AT 4 PM CDT...OR 2100Z. SINCE THE DEPRESSION IS NOT EXPECTED TO REACH TROPICAL STORM STRENGTH BEFORE IT MAKES LANDFALL ALONG THE EAST COAST OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA LATER TONIGHT...NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS ARE ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. FORECASTER STEWART/PASCH

POSSIBLE PATH FORECAST FOR THIS STORM


TROPICAL DEPRESSION NUMBER 3

This system could strengthen over the next few days.  It has the potential to become a tropical storm.

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