mile 572-677
We had anchored further from the inlet so we left very early. There was no wind and the channel was well marked and deep. A factory near the anchorage provided some light for the early part of our journey. We did not pass any ships or other boats in the inlet. There was no wind and we knew this would be a motor day. There were some leftover swells in the ocean that sometimes helped push us and sometimes rocked us. We took turns steering.
On my first shift David reminded me to pick a cloud to steer toward for awhile. I tried to keep our bow between an alligator and a narwhal who were facing off in the sky.
On my second shift, there were no clouds but we started to see power boats, trawlers taking advantage of the lack of wind and calmer seas to make an outside run. They were mostly headed to the same inlet so I could follow them until they disappeared. They were nicely dispersed such that about the time one would be hard to see, another would pass and take its place.
We reached the inlet around 330 and headed in. We reached the marina where the dock master Caroline, caught our lines. She remembered us from last year. We docked on the outside dock. We went ashore to walk around and watch the sunset. We visited the Costal Kitchen which had been closed last year due to a flood from pipes above the kitchen. We would not recommend the lobster nachos in Georgia, but the people were very nice.
We plan a longer visit here in the spring when we hope to visit Steve and Christina who were not here this trip. We hope to visit Jekyll Island again also.
