Allan's-Pensacola

The tree of lost soles.

More like Allan's-PensaCOOL-ah, this place is RAD!!!!  We anchored for a couple nights on this uninhabited island.  We took Wookie to shore and found ourselves at the tree of lost soles - a tree with numerous flip flops hanging from it's branches.  It led to a path with a sign saying "this way to the beach".  I thought maybe it was a trap.  I know, I need to stop watching horror movies, but to my credit, there was an old baby doll with no legs in the tree. And it was staring at me.

We decided to be brave and headed down the tree canopy covered path.  The path itself was beautiful.  We walked on as the trail started getting narrower, nervous that maybe we were walking our way to our doom.  Boy, were we wrong. The last corner we turned revealed the most spectacular beach ive ever seen.  This place is paradise!

Are we going to get mugged?

There was another tree on the beach decorated with signs of visiting vessels and old buoys. In fact, there were dozens of decorated trees lining the beach.  We later learned that the trees were decorated with wreckage from the last hurricane.  They've turned the garbage into art.  We met a couple from Canada that have been coming to Allan's for over a decade and are responsible for keeping up the trails. Way to go Mike and Sue! You are cool!