Up at 0530 for coffee and breakfast. Walter and Maggie get underway at 0630 and we are right behind them at 0645. The tide is almost out, but still has about 1 hour until full low tide. Donna wants to run the helm this morning. Its nerve racking for her and me as we run through skinny water. Our depth gauge hits 3.9’ and 4.4’ several times which means our keel is pushing mud. We slow down to a crawl in the really shallow places and get even further behind Day-O. Larry and another boat are following us so if we screw up and run aground they were likely going aground too. So the morning went! Angst upon more angst. We finally reached some deeper water and were able to exhale. Once we were in the Mackay and Brunswick Rivers we made good time with the current helping us. Passing through Mud River and Jekyll Creek was a little scary as they have notorious shallow spots and were also near low tide.
We passed through St. Andrew Sound and found it “unusually calm” according to Walter. Day-O got held up by a nuclear submarine leaving Kings Bay so we were able to catch up to them in Cumberland Sound. We departed the ICW and anchored off Cumberland Island about 1345.
Maggie has a friend who works as a ranger at the Cumberland Island Park. We dinghied ashore around 1500 and the ranger gave us a personal tour of some of the islands best features, wild horses, the trees, the Carnegie Estate and much more. After the tour we went to Whisper for cocktails and noshes. After that it was back to our boat for cleanup and bed.
Location: Cumberland Island, GA anchorage at ICW MM 711. Today’s progress: 42 Statute Miles
We passed through St. Andrew Sound and found it “unusually calm” according to Walter. Day-O got held up by a nuclear submarine leaving Kings Bay so we were able to catch up to them in Cumberland Sound. We departed the ICW and anchored off Cumberland Island about 1345.
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