Into Georgia

Yesterday was long, cold and beautiful. We traveled 75 ICW miles. We left Wappoo Creek at 0800 and had great motor-sailing wind for much of the day. We wound our way through marshes, inlets and cuts, always keeping an eye on the depth finder. We have carefully timed our passages over the next few days to be sure we hit the skinny spots with as much water as possible. We had hoped to be offshore for these parts of the ICW but the conditions have not been what we have wanted, so we will continue inside until we get a good window to jump outside. We anchored after dark in Cowen Creek just south of Beaufort, SC. 

This morning we left shortly after 0700, again trying to time our approaches to areas of shoaling. The day started with cold rain and ended with warm sunshine. In between we continued to meander through beautiful marshland and passed well known places such as Hilton Head, SC and Savannah, GA. By mid-afternoon we again found ourselves surrounded by vast marshland and dropped the hook seemingly in the middle of nowhere, in a little creek interestingly named Big Tom Creek. There are a few other cruisers sprinkled in the area in other little creeks, but otherwise, complete darkness now surrounds the boat. Tomorrow we hope to make it to St. Simon's Island where we hope to take on fuel and much needed groceries.

Raising the Thanksgiving flag!

It was cold today!

Sunset just past Beaufort, SC