Day 40 – St. Simon’s Island, Ga. (Mile 677)
Paula’s eyes popped open at 5:10am as there was a night heron barking and gargling outside the open bedside portal. Thinking this was a good time to get the laundry started before others might need the machines, she dressed quietly and grabbed the clothes sacks and quarters. Tiptoeing off the boat heron karma happened. In […]
Day 39 – St. Simon’s Island, Ga. (Mile 677)
C Ghost’s anchor held through a very blustery night in New Tea Kettle Creek. Tom and I alternated two hour watches until the 18-25mph winds finally subsided to 10-13mph sometime after midnight. The war of wind and current continued, and C Ghost danced strange patterns as first current, then wind had ascendancy. One benefit of […]
Day 38 – New Teakettle Creek, Ga. (Mile 647)
This day saw us crossing two sounds, St. Catherine and Sapelo, and winding our way down sinuous rivers, one romantically named Blackbeard River. We had no bridges to pass under or through, and only one “official” narrows-The Creighton Narrows, which we took halfway through a rising tide. The weather forecasts agreed that we would have […]
Day 37 – Ossabaw Island, Ga. (Mile 607)
First light found C Ghost conveniently pointing towards the exit to our anchorage due to the expected current shift. We left right at sunup. It was already in the mid-sixties and reached the mid-eighties by noon. Pretty surprising to those of us who expect much colder temps with November on the horizon. We had begun […]
Day 36 – Daufuskie Island, S.C. (Mile 569)
This day has provided much appreciated smooth sailing. We had an easy departure from Beaufort, and even got to sleep in a bit as slack current wasn’t till after 9am. Paula got to talk to one of the crew of the largest yacht on the pier, as each of us was wiping dew off her […]
Day 35 – Beaufort, S.C. (Mile 536)
Note – this town is pronounced “Buuufort” and not “Booofort” like that other town in North Carolina. Just like in North Carolina, the penalty here is death if you get it wrong, but the method of execution is worse. Today’s adventure began in the wee hours. Tom and I slept in the cockpit last night, […]
Day 34 – Fenwick Island, S.C. (Mile 509)
Note – The featured picture for this post was taken from the bow of the boat looking aft in our anchorage for tonight. We are anchored in the South Edisto River just a mile away from Fenwick Island. Both expected and unexpected challenges today. We timed our departure from Charleston to leave at slack tide, […]
Day 33 – Charleston, S.C. (Mile 465)
It was nice to wake up knowing we had a whole day to spend in Charleston. At 8 am the shuttle picked us up and took us to Harris Teeter, along with another boater, and we were able to shop for perishables, and then enjoy a coffee at Starbucks with our full grocery caddy while […]
Day 32 – Charleston, S.C. (Mile 465)
Today’s tide timing challenge was not nearly as clear cut as in previous days. The problem was this – about 20 miles south of our anchorage was another fixed bridge (nominally 65′ of clearance, but we’ve yet to see anything close to that so far on this trip), followed immediately by a 2 mile stretch […]
Day 31 – Awendaw Creek, S.C. (Mile 436)
Last night, our anchorage at Bull Creek was “the bomb”! Billed as a “big sky” anchorage, we were in a woods-lined channel with brilliant constellations everywhere. We had 26 feet of water. The current was strong enough that we slept out in the cockpit to monitor for any dragging. The alarm on Drag Queen was […]