Brunswick, GA May 14th
Here we are again at a very favorite place. April loves it here. The dockmaster remembered April and April
remembered the dockmaster. The
dockmaster took April on a golf cart ride today. She is invited into the dockmaster’s hut
whenever. We have had GSP’s for almost
50 years, and I have loved every single one of them, but I have to say April is
so very special in a great many ways.
She is so adaptable – to the boat, to people and to other dogs. She has a new friend, Charlie, that she met while running in her private dog park. Charlie is Pit Bull, Bull Dog and
Hotdog. He is one tough dog at a year
old and April put him through her test.
She decided she liked him and they have had two wonderful play times, race
and chase and just what they both needed.
We left St. Augustine
on Monday AM early with a slack tide. We
had a beautiful ride to Fernandina Beach, the tide with us all the way. The next day we were up early and with a line
handler headed out from Fernandina. The
tide was slack and the linehandler not so swift, but we finally made it out
from the wall and onto the waterway again.
All things were going great but then the Coast Guard hailed us that
there was a sub coming our way headed toward the shipyard at St. Mary, and we needed to move out of the channel starboard
and NOW! Okay, so there was shallow water
and danger, so be It for our fleet.
Anyway we were held up about an hour, and then onward. We had three inlets to cross with the current
and wind and then we had Jekyell Creek.
We actually plowed our way through the creek with our meter registering
2.5 feet for at least a mile. Yet another
reason why I love Georgia!!
May 15th
As expected the rains, thunder and lightning began yesterday
afternoon and continue today. Tomorrow
is supposed to be sunny again but with high winds out of the North – on our
bow. Another worry is the winds blow the
water out of the Georgia waterway so water that is already shallow gets even skinnier. So we may end up sitting here one more
day. Perhaps we’ll rent a car and do
some shopping. All the stores are too
far to walk from here, never mind the groceries get really heavy, especially April's water!
There are three other boats here with us that were also in
St. Augustine with us. One of them is
experiencing a shaft problem and trying to make it to Oriental, SC to get it fixed. Boy am I
glad that problem is behind us!
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