Leaving Frederica and not sure where we will anchor..

We are sad since we are leaving part of our caravan behind today. Hope to see Southern Star again before they leave the States.

We tried to be quiet as we left the anchorage. Southern Star was awake and wished us safe travels. See ya!

We knew there we crab pots at the entrance to the anchorage since we saw them as we came in, but we couldn't see them this morning and heard a bump. I looked behind the boat and saw part of a float come up but not all. Shay slowed down and played around with the props and we saw more red buoy come to the top, se we think we threw the float off the props. We hope so. We had gotten close to them before but they usually just pop up behind the boat. It could have been worse, we could have wrapped it around the prop or stabilizer.

Pretty moon

 

Bridge heading into Brunswick,GA

Waterpark on Jekyll. Don't think it will be open today.

  

 

 These pictures are from the Naval Submarine Base at Kings Bay. We were disappointed today because there were not any submarines there. The two last pictures are of the degaussing station. Used to demagnetize the subs.

As you can tell from the title, we are not quite sure how far we will go today. We usually know exactly where we will anchor but not today. We have several skinny areas and several places we can either get a push or pull from the current, so we will see how it goes. Jekyll Island is very shallow at or near low tide so we want to go thru there with as much water as we can.  St Simon Sound can be rough if the wind and current are opposing each other so we want to play that right.

This is in the entrance of St Mary's Sound

Fort Clinch at the entrance of Fernandina

Fernandina is not a pretty place from the water. It looks like a horror amusement park.

Damage from Matthew

 

This boat was interesting. The green areas fold down to cover the storage area in the hull.

No boats moored because the moorings have not been inspected since Matthew. There are not many boats anchored here. Guess they are concerned about holding. The city marina is closed to transient boats. We can't even anchor and use the dinghy dock. Not good for Fernandina.

 

Pretty buildings, finally!

SeaSalt zooming thru Fernandina with a good push from the current. About 8kts.

More Matthew

We wonder why the boats are still grounded. Well, most of them are derelict boats and if they could find the owners they wouldn't want to spend the money to get them repaired and back in the water. And they are probably not insured. So they aren't worth much.

We made it thru Jekyll with no problems and St. Simon Sound too. We discussed stopping for the night at Cumberland Island but we were getting such a good push so we decided to keep going. The will put us going thru Fernandina with a high tide and that is another skinny area, so that works out in our favor. We started looking for an anchorage south of Fernandina, but couldn't find the depths we wanted, so we kept going.

We finally stopped in Nassau Sound and dropped anchor just off the ICW at 2:30. We had traveled 7.5 hours at 6.5kts and gone 49.24nm. Neither boat has anchored here before and we hope we'll have a good night.

Looking back toward the ICW

 

SeaSalt

Just sitting here in Nassau Sound

No, we can't go out here, the bridge is too low.

 

 

Sorry no trip pictures today. I forgot to start it this morning.

Frederica River

We left at 7:30 so we could get to the Little Mud River at near high tide. We had no problems going thru the river. It was a peaceful day on the water.

We got to our anchorage at 1:50. We traveled almost 40nm at 6.4kts for 6.25hrs.

These boat beat us to the anchorage today. They took off and left us behind. But we found them! 

Bridge near Brunswick, GA

 

Beautiful sunset

You can see, we are near a small airport.

Even thought it looks like there is nothing around in this picture.

  

Our trip today

 

We had been watching the weather because Southern Star can not go into FL until December 1st. Now, if there is nothing brewing out in the ocean they could leave a few days early, but we're not that lucky. The past few days, a storm  has been brewing and today it was predicted to have a >80% chance of developing into a tropical depression within the next 5 days. So what that means is that Southern Star can't travel into FL with us.

They decided the stay here at this anchorage a few more days and see what happens, then if they need to they can go into a marina or go on the hard depending on how severe the storm is.

We are sad to see them go so we got together on Escape to tell them goodbye, give them some routes they can use once we leave them and have some cheesecake supplied by SeaSalt. Escape met Southern Star 2 weeks ago and we have been traveling with them ever since. They are a great couple and we have enjoyed our time together. Sorry to leave you! Keep in touch. We may take you up on the invite to visit you in Australia.

We will miss these smiling faces!

 

 We hope the weathermen are wrong and this doesn't turn into a storm or if it does; it "goes harmless out to sea".

Wahoo River

It's cold this morning. We read 50 degrees inside and outside the boat! It's cold! Turn on the heat! And we did!

We left Vernon River at 7:55 heading to Hell Gate. It's only a few miles from our anchorage. We got there at high tide with 8' of extra water so as our Australian friends on Southern Star would say, "no worries, mate!".

We were going with the current part of the way and were traveling 9.8kts! Our engine rpms would get us about 6.5-7 so we were getting a good push. Better going with the current than against! And we do that sometimes too.

We were providing a buffet for the birds

Meet these barges. Glad it was a wide place in the ICW.

We got to Wahoo River at 12:45. We traveled almost 5 hours at 6.1kts and went 30.32nm.

 

 

Our trip today

Southern Star invited us all over for a burger on the barbie! We had a great meal with burgers, sausage, slaw, salad and fixings! We all contributed to the meal and it was yummy.

Jojo wanted to clean out her cabinets, so Connie and I got all kinds of goodies for our boats. Thank you so much.

We were all excited about the "super moon" tonight. It was cloudy last night and we didn't get to see it and tonight is clear. We had a peaceful night at anchorage. What more could you want?

Beautiful sunset

Beautiful "super moon" rise