Nights of Lights
Shortly after we arrived here in St. Augustine, we saw preparations taking place to dress up the downtown area with annual Christmas cheer. We’d heard that St. Augustine did a particularly nice job at this, but were totally unprepared for what we were about to see. Lights and decorations adorn the city from November 19th […]
Becoming Floridians
Once we arrived here in St. Augustine and got somewhat settled in our new surroundings, we turned our attention to the topic of becoming “legal” residents of the state of Florida. We’d done a fair amount of research on this before leaving Maryland since our situation was complicated by the fact that we intended to […]
New Home
After all the anticipation regarding our ICW trip and relocation to Florida, these first few days have seemed a bit unreal. Living on C Ghost has its own rhythm-tasks and routines which provides a sense of stability, much welcome in this new environment so different from the Chesapeake where we have boated all our lives. […]
ICW Trip Wrap-up (Stats, what worked, what didn’t)
Here are some stats from the trip: It took us 46 days to get here (just under 1,000 miles). We didn’t rush or attempt to keep to any schedule. We were conservative as regards weather and ended up waiting a total of 18 days in various places for weather to improve. Fully half of those […]
Day 46 – St. Augustine, Fl. (Mile 780)
Since we had 57 miles to go today to reach our final destination of St. Augustine, we left the anchorage about a half-hour before sunrise. There was no fog, and plenty of light to see by. Several dolphins departed the anchorage as we did. Today we saw more boats and were in more boat “queues” […]
Day 45 – South Amelia River, Fl. (Mile 724)
Tonight marks our 20th night at anchor this trip, our first night in Florida, with one more leg to go before arriving in St. Augustine tomorrow. All this on the night the US chooses a new president. We left the dock at Jekyll Island just before low tide, when the winds were Forecast to be […]
Day 44 – Jekyll Island, Ga. (Mile 684)
Today has been our windiest day in Jekyll Island so far. 18 mph now, with gusts to 28 mph. Many boats are in the anchorage and marina waiting for the blow to calm. Walking the Southern portion of the beach this morning, we could see Cumberland Island and the choppy surf in the Sound. Very […]
Day 43 – Jekyll Island, Ga. (Mile 684)
The first day of “no more Daylight Savings Time” let us sleep until the sun came up and still feel like relative early birds. The weather was favorable for an early morning Sound crossing, but the winds were forecast to be up to 28mph tonight and tomorrow in the area we planned to anchor and […]
Day 42 – Jekyll Island, Ga. (Mile 684)
We never intended to stop here in Jekyll Island on this trip. It only became a destination a couple days ago due to weather and tide conditions along our route. Now here for the 2nd day because of high winds, we can’t believe we didn’t plan a longer stay here. This place is gorgeous. We […]
Day 41 – Jekyll Island, Ga. (Mile 684)
Note – For some reason the AIS tracker didn’t work today and we’re still diagnosing why. That’s why the map still shows us in St. Simons. You may also have noticed from the mileage shown in the post title that we only went 7 miles today. This was strategic because of tide and weather conditions. […]