Nov 24
It has been a week without internet access and so now we are trying to catch up. Here is what is up with this sea faring family.
Woo hoo! Today we slipped into Georgia! We put in a 54 mile day dodging shoals by the dozen. This last few days have taken every ounce of navigation skill we could muster. The intricacies and the inaccuracies of the charts in this area have made for an exhausting and sometimes hair raising experience. Believe it or not I think I did lose a few more hairs, so I hope you can recognize me when we come home. Shirley says it looks fine but I am keeping my hat on. Our journey today took us across the Savannah River, which is the border into Georgia. Later we went through Hell's Gate, which was one of those, well, hellish spots. We saw someone else go aground there, which is always good for those approaching because we now know that is a bad spot. We were lucky and saw a local larger boat go through and we locked our human radar on him. As we scooted along through some peaceful spots we were treated to dolphins that came up and swam right in our stern wake, just about touching the boat. Christopher's comment was "Oooh, oooh! ooOOOH!"Pretty cool. We continued on and now have anchored on the edge of St. Catherines Sound just off of St. Catherines Island in Walburg Creek (for all those following on Google Earth). We dropped the anchor as close as we could to a house in the hope they had a wifi router. And Presto! Here we are. The connection is slow and we will try to load pictures when we can.
It has been a week without internet access and so now we are trying to catch up. Here is what is up with this sea faring family.
Woo hoo! Today we slipped into Georgia! We put in a 54 mile day dodging shoals by the dozen. This last few days have taken every ounce of navigation skill we could muster. The intricacies and the inaccuracies of the charts in this area have made for an exhausting and sometimes hair raising experience. Believe it or not I think I did lose a few more hairs, so I hope you can recognize me when we come home. Shirley says it looks fine but I am keeping my hat on. Our journey today took us across the Savannah River, which is the border into Georgia. Later we went through Hell's Gate, which was one of those, well, hellish spots. We saw someone else go aground there, which is always good for those approaching because we now know that is a bad spot. We were lucky and saw a local larger boat go through and we locked our human radar on him. As we scooted along through some peaceful spots we were treated to dolphins that came up and swam right in our stern wake, just about touching the boat. Christopher's comment was "Oooh, oooh! ooOOOH!"Pretty cool. We continued on and now have anchored on the edge of St. Catherines Sound just off of St. Catherines Island in Walburg Creek (for all those following on Google Earth). We dropped the anchor as close as we could to a house in the hope they had a wifi router. And Presto! Here we are. The connection is slow and we will try to load pictures when we can.
1 comment:
Hi Shirley, Dave and Chris
Helena gave me the address of your blog. We just left Georgia!! We spent the last 2 weeks on Jekyll Island. Wonderful place, but the weather was a little chilly while we were there, but it was still better than snow in Orangeville!!
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