St. Andrews Bay

Or are we seeing a Gulf of America now? Which one is it? Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America? Is it legally Gulf of America now? I'm just going to say Gulf of Mexico because that's easier for me.

So it's between the Gulf of Mexico and St. Andrew Bay.

No big hotels or condos stacked up.

It's not a big commercial strip there.

He had started with the raft in tow from his mill at the head of Chuctawatchi Bay, bound for the great lumber port of Pensacola, but being several times becalmed, was now out of provisions.

We gave him and his men all we could spare from our store, and then inquired whether it would be possible for us to find a team and driver to haul our boats from the end of the watercourse we were then traversing, across the woods to the tributary waters of St. Andrews Bay.

The captain kindly urged us to go to his home and report ourselves to his wife, remaining as his guests until he should return from Pensacola.

When, he said, I myself will take you across.

He bade us welcome, while he remarked that there were no Sundays in these parts, where one day was just like another, and then, presenting us with half his venison, regretted that he had not been aware of our arrival.

As he could have killed another deer, his dog having started fifteen during a short ramble in the woods.

In the thickets of Tee-Tee, which are almost as dense as cane breaks, the deer, panthers, and bears take refuge, and in this great wilderness of St. Andrews Bay, expert hunters can find venison almost any day.

On Monday morning we rode through West Bay across the southern end of North Bay and skirted the north coast of the East Bay of St. Andrews, with its picturesque groves of cabbage palms for a few miles, when we turned southward into the inlet through which the tidal waters of the Gulf pass in and out of the Sound.