What a difference a day makes. Today was a very pleasant day with mild winds. Unfortunately the timing of the tides was terrible and we had an adverse current most of the day -- maybe 20 minutes it was favorable. As we approached the St Johns River from the South our Speed over ground dropped to 4.1 and avg 4.5 for several miles.
At any rate we made Fernandina FL by 3:30pm and anchored in Bells River just across from the mooring field of the Marina. We are just 2 miles from the Georgia border. Unfortunately the next several days are not good for going offshore so GULP -- we will take the ICW through Georgia.
Ohh we passed the site of that terrible boating accident that occurred a couple of days here near the Palm Bridge. A 22 foot power boat with 14 persons aboard (grossly overloaded) slammed into a parked tug working on a dock at 7pm – still full daylight – and injured all persons aboard and killed 5!! The site was pretty clean but the damaged tug was easy to spot. No reason – visibility is excellent here.
Winds are supposed to come back strong tomorrow afternoon 10 – 20 with gusts to 30 but we hope to be tied up at Golden Isle Marina on St Simons Island by that time. Time for fuel, water. Laundry, and fresh groceries – they have a courtesy car there.
Tonight it will be a Euchre game for the world championship between Ian and I and Karen and Sharon --- Boys against girls like it should be. Never Husband/wife against husband/wife!!
Should be a fun evening. Sand Castle and Sweet Chariot will join us too. It will be nice to have some company after 2 very isolated days at Pine Island.
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