SUMMER BREEZE: Feb 8 - 9, SC and GA

Saturday, Feb 8

Bull Creek at Dafuskie Island, SC to Crescent River close

to Doboy Inlet, GA

We planned on cruising about 50 miles today inshore as our offshore reports were conflicting, so better safe than not. Bella said "thank you!". She gets sea sick 😓

It was a nice day and we quickly questioned our decision to not go offshore which would make the run through Georgia a lot easier but by early afternoon, the winds had picked up quite a bit and we knew that we had made the right decision.

We had a beautiful sunrise this morning.

Bruce at the anchor.

Anchor up at 7:15 AM and it was calm but very COLD! The outside temp was 35 this morning so that is a definite BRRRRR, though the flybridge is not totally enclosed, it was warm-ish. The sun quickly warmed us all up!

As we got closer to the Savannah River which is a BIG shipping lane on the winding ICW, we could see these monsters (container ships).

This is our 1st time to travel this part of the ICW in GA as we have always traveled offshore here so there was some new parts to us. Like Hell Gate. The best part of that was when we thought our engine was overheating and Bruce runs down to the ER while I'm at the helm. Then the hell 😈 part of Hell Gate opened up as the channel narrowed extremely with the red and green markers literally only 10' of our sides with mud flats shoaled in and a current running like the devil. I got us through it without the assistance of Captain Bruce and I was not able to take any photos of it. We only got down as little as 4' under the keel but we were inches from a mistake. It was dredged in October 2019.

There has been little ICW traffic , big or small but today we encountered this guy.

We were making good time so we kept on going and got a lot further than expected, anchoring at 5:30 and everything bedded down before dark so it was a good day. We are only a couple of miles from our offshore destination and we can definitely make Jekyll Island tomorrow and have already called to secure a spot at the marina.

Our anchor spot view.

And the sunset

Then the moonrise!

The night was so calm and with the full moon, the cloud cover reflected down onto the water making it look like the clouds were sitting on the bottom. It was beautiful and eerie!

Anchored in Crescent River turning in at R156 marker.

MM643 approximately

77.8 miles today

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Sunday, Feb 9

We didn't have enough cell service to post last night.

Anchor was up and we were under way by 7 AM in hopes of getting to Jekyll Marina on the early side of the day.

We had the moonrise and the sunrise on opposite ends of the boat again this morning. What a treat!

The Golden Ray. Remember the car carrying container ship that sunk in the St Simons Sound, GA last summer? Still there. Looks weird in the water.

All tucked in at the Jekyll Harbor Marina early afternoon. The trip only took us 5 hours today which was nice as yesterday was a 10 hour trip. We went for a long walk and look forward to great meal at Zachary's River House tonight.