- 29.7 miles
- 3 hours 14 minutes
- 9.1 mph average speed
- 3-7 mph winds
It was a nice, short trip from Apalachicola to Carrabelle where we will wait until the weather is favorable for our overnight Gulf crossing.
Carrabelle is home to the world’s smallest police station! In 1953, the phone company installed a phone in call box to the side of a building so that the two man police force could answer calls while patrolling the streets but they had issues with people making unauthorized long distance calls from the phone as well as vandalism. In 1963, the phone booth was moved to its current location where the officers could sit in their patrol cars and do paperwork and listen for the phone while watching for speeders and suspicious characters. They still had problems with unauthorized long distance calls being made and eventually removed the dial from the phone so that calls could be received but not made and it served the police of Carrabelle for decades.
We visited the Carrabelle History Museum, located in the Old Carrabelle City Hall, which was packed with history of this little town. One of the items was the original phone, a Western Electric Circa 1948, from the World’s Smallest Police Station.
The Carrabelle Bottle House was started in 2012 by Leon Weisner. Weisner traveled the world being an artist for the Miss Universe pageant. We visited the property during the day but later learned that the lighthouse and the house are lit up at night which would have been nice to see. We also did not know that we could have gone inside the house!
We have had several “it’s a small world” moments on our trip but this one takes the cake: Lynne and Earle live in Vinings and their daughter is dating a man that lives ACROSS THE STREET from us in Atlanta in the former home of a very dear friend of Ellen’s aunt!
