Long Days and Skinny Water!

The last two days have been very long and tiring and I will be very glad to be done with this trip. It's a few minutes after 7 AM and Larry and Tom are trying to figure out the swishing sound our engine started to make late afternoon yesterday. This year has proved to be very challenging as far as the boat and break downs go. I guess we are being tested for our determination for this life aboard. Well I guess we are going to get underway the engine works and we will run it and hope for the best. There is always Tow Boat US to come to the rescue.

We have been on the inside route ICW for the past two days. It has been high winds on the inside and even higher on the outside, with the threat of thunderstorms thrown in. Today the forecast is much the same.

We went by Cumberland Island yesterday and we can usually count on seeing wild horses on shore. I never tire of looking for them or at them. We saw six in total, two different places yesterday. The three in the picture were grazing and running along the beach at the North end of the island.

Kings Bay is just across from Cumberland Island, it is a naval submarine base. We have been treated to view an escort several times while transiting this area. I don't remember a gunner on the front of the Coast Guard boat before but one was there yesterday. It never ceases to amaze me how close we actually get to these vessels, but as you can see by the size of the gun on the front of the Coast Guard boat they are well protected.

We are now underway and it is 8:05 AM and the skies are overcast. Storms are predicted for today with heavy rain fall. We decided to lift anchor anyway, we can always stop if visibility gets impossible to navigate the ICW. There are plenty of small anchorages along the way. All the shallow skinny water is behind us, we did that yesterday. Georgia is known for shoaling and lack of dredging but it is behind us now.

Our ultimate goal today is to get to Isle of Hope and take a dock at the marina for one night. We need to get fuel, groceries and do some laundry. The marina has a courtesy car and the four of us will go shopping and stop on the way back for dinner. We should get to the marina mid afternoon. Tomorrow we will push on to South Carolina.