All you boaters will be happy to learn that according to today's Mobile Press Register, we are NOT going to get the oil spill on the southern coasts that has been predicted!!! For one thing, the stormy weather we've been having helped to disperse the oil and also allowed the teams time to put out the booms and other devices to catch the oil and prevent it's coming onshore. This, it said, will allow the oil to ball up and become tar like balls that are easier to collect but won't mess things up like a spill seeping into everything would. It may not even stop fishing as feared.
Marge Griffith
Boatless on Mobile Bay

Good day Marge,
So I like your thinking on the prediction of the oil spill.
Here is our dilemma.
We plan on leaving Ft. Myers Beach on May 29th which will put us in Tarpon
Springs by about June 5th or 6th. Then if the weather is good on June 6th on
to Carrabelle, then west to Mobile Bay and North from there by June 10th or
so. I realize you are not a professional oil spill expert; however, I would
appreciate your opinion and others on this list as to us being able to make
that trip without coming into contact with the oil spill or the coagulated
tar balls.

BTW...any and all opinions would be appreciated. In addition, if you know of
a website suggestion for monitoring the oil contamination, that too would be
helpful. The only site I have found is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uscgd8/4578566262/sizes/l/in/set-72157623940838
176/

Thanks!
David

David & Marla Russo - Currently in Ft. Myers Beach.
MV Adesso, a Pama LX540
Phone (847) 778-1018
Skype Adesso54
Adesso@ymail.com
drusso@arccommercial.com

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