By TIM CROFT

Capt. Jim Townsend gazed down the dock at the mouth of the Gulf County Canal as it enters St. Joseph Bay last week. "People talk all the time about the distance from here to I-10," Townsend said. "There is our interstate."

Townsend Marine was at it once again last week, facilitating the movement of barges through the Intracoastal Waterway via the canal and on to points south.

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