The weather predictions were for storms on Sunday night into Monday morning. We decided to dock at Carolina Beach State Park instead of anchoring out. The park marina was very nice but we really had to watch the tides due to shallow water in the marina and channel. Our depth requirement is 4 foot and […]
March 26, travel Day 62, carolina Beach State Park Read More »
We stopped in Southport, NC for a few days. The town overlooks the Cape Fear River as it flows to the Atlantic Ocean. The town was established in 1792 but French and Spanish explorers visited the area in 1524. The British came and settled the area in the mid 1600’s. Fort Johnson was established as
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We left Georgetown in the morning and traveled 6 hours and 25 minutes to get to Myrtle Beach, Barefoot Landing Marina. Our friends Chris and Laura decided to anchor out a few days and we will catch them again in Southport, NC. The scenery was unbelievable. Cypress swamps with alligators, turtles, osprey, eagles, heron, cormorants,
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We sneaked around Chris and Laura’s boat and left the anchorage about 8 am. We Headed to Georgetown Harbor Walk Marina. It was a short day for travel, 2 hours and 29 minutes. We stayed one full day and night in Georgetown. The town is quaint, historic, walkable and packed with great restaurants, museums and
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We left Charleston Harbor, Safe Harbor Marina own March 19. we traveled on the intercostal about 6 hours and 58 minutes, arriving at an anchorage called Duck Creek Anchorage. We spent the night there, it was a wide anchorage with room for swinging with the current. We grilled burgers and as usual when at anchor….early
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We left our anchorage at Ashepoo River 1 and headed for Charleston. (6 hours 39 minutes). While at anchorage we were not able to run our generator due to no power in the generator starting battery. Our first order of business in Charleston was finding and installing new batteries. Mike decided to replace the batteries
March 17, Charleston Read More »
We left Jeckyll Island on Saturday March 11, 2023, and our destination was Savannah, Georgia. We spent one night at anchor before arriving at Thunderbolt Marina. It was extremely windy and a storm was approaching so we were glad to get blown into our slip! Along the way we did pass some small islands with
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We arrived at Jeckyll harbor Marina on March 6. The facilities were great! Our friends from Miracle and Long Gone 2 were at the marina and we had a great visit. The Island is absolutely gorgeous with sprawling beaches to historic ruins. A canopy of live oaks with draping moss trees line the streets and
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We traveled about 4 hours on the ICW to get to Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island. Our friends Lynn and Leon from Ste. Genevieve were vacationing south and joined us for a few days! Above left: Leon, Lynn, Chris, Laura(from Miracle), Jody and Mike. We had a great dinner at “Wicked Bao”. Mike had pork
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Mitch and Anne our friends from No Rush completed their loop in Hudson, Florida. They drove over to Sister’s Creek Dock to meet us and spend some time together. We went for a 4 mile hike at Little Talbot Island State Park but first we had the best chowder Mike ever tasted at Ted’s Chowder
February 28-March 2, Sister’s Creek Dock (Jacksonville) Read More »