We anchored in a wide spot off the ICW off of Little St. Simons Island on Friday night and ran below to get away from the flies. Had an extremely unnerving experience just before hitting bed. It sounded like in the movie 'Titanic' when the props where making that whoosh,whoosh,whoosh noise that resounded in the entire theatre, but our engines where shut down so what was that noise? Well, lets just say the outgoing tides here are so strong that they were making our props free -wheel. They were turning like the house was on fire! Scared the you know what out of me, but we woke up the next morning and were not in the middle of the Atlantic so it's just one of the 'new things' we deal with.
Saturday was rainy and overcast and that was a good thing as evidently the Green Headed Monsters don't like rain or clouds, they were nowhere to be seen. YES!! We anchored in a creek on Sat. night because of a fore casted storm (didn't happen) and were ready to head out at 8am Sunday.
Sunday was a very long (10 hour ) day and it seemed that we were winding around Savannah for hours.
We anchored in a Cowen Creek and again the props were free-wheeling, but nowhere near the speed of Friday night and I wasn't as afraid of being sucked out into the Atlantic this time!!
Observations for the day were: lots of small boats out on Sunday, the waterways really do wind back and forth for miles & miles, the tides are huge here, the docks must cost a fortune, and the houses are lovely.
We are now headed for Beaufort (pronounced Bew-fort in S.C.) for the day or maybe a few, still to be decided.
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