Saturday 5/16 St. Simons Island, GA (Hidden Harbor Yacht Club) to Savannah, GA (Isle of Hope Marina).
Early, early riser, this morning...Harry joined me and captured my feelings exactly when he said, 'it fills your senses doesn't it?' Had we been in a crowded marina this could never have been witnessed. it was a wonderful way to start the day..
How do you say miles and miles and miles and miles of Georgia lowlands…. I know i said i liked being out of the cities and that the wildlife entertained me but the channel was very wide and on both sides, far away in the distance was salt water marshes, as far as the eye can see. Usually there is so much to look at but this was a long traveling day (8 hrs) and 7 of that was lowlands. It was actually the first day that i’ve read my kindle while traveling. I’m reading book number two in the kindle - The Summer House by Tove Jansson - a fabulous book about a grandmother and granddaughter living on an island in Finland. Sarah McKinnon, for some reason i kept thinking you would really enjoy this book....and again, thank you ladies for such a great gift.
I didn’t pick up my camera but twice while traveling…took one of Harry at the helm and you know what he looks like so i'll skip that one for now - but the other was as we were attempting a safe passage through the dreaded Hell's Gate. All day we'd been anticipating the depth of Hell's Gate according to the tide and time of day we'd be hitting the area. It was quite exciting as we neared the dramatically narrow and shallow channel. It reminded me of the feeling I'd have on the river in the Grand Canyon when coming up on a large rapid like Hermit - not knowing what to expect but knowing you had to go forward and give it a try. Two shrimpers, a sailboat and a few motor yachts had been idling awaiting a rise in the tide before proceeding through. As we approached, the shrimpers gave the good to go call on the radio and we all headed through. I told Harry to 'think light'.....we made it through without a drag!
But once we docked at the isle of hope marina there was a plethora of photographic scenes. This is the kind of island i want to live on - it’s so southern and all the houses on the island appear to be ‘cottages’ - not the monstrous mansions you see almost everywhere these days.
Harry decided go go back to the boat once he discovered i was determined to ride my bike up and down every street and even every back alley as not to miss a single cottage and/or out building. I love my bike. For Ann and Susie Lawrenson - you must know that there were gardenia bushes growing everywhere, like lilac bushes might grow and many seemed to grow wild. The air was fat with sweet scents.
This is the first marina we've come to that has a courtesy car available to boaters. We reserved it for a drive to dinner at the Driftaway Cafe - had a kale salad! Harry had a steak. And also had the car reserved the next morning for a ride to WalMart - Harry awoke excited about that! It felt rather strange to be in a car - we drove a couple of mile and stocked up on bottled water and breads and lunch meats. i cooked dinner on the boat.
I didn’t pick up my camera but twice while traveling…took one of Harry at the helm and you know what he looks like so i'll skip that one for now - but the other was as we were attempting a safe passage through the dreaded Hell's Gate. All day we'd been anticipating the depth of Hell's Gate according to the tide and time of day we'd be hitting the area. It was quite exciting as we neared the dramatically narrow and shallow channel. It reminded me of the feeling I'd have on the river in the Grand Canyon when coming up on a large rapid like Hermit - not knowing what to expect but knowing you had to go forward and give it a try. Two shrimpers, a sailboat and a few motor yachts had been idling awaiting a rise in the tide before proceeding through. As we approached, the shrimpers gave the good to go call on the radio and we all headed through. I told Harry to 'think light'.....we made it through without a drag!
But once we docked at the isle of hope marina there was a plethora of photographic scenes. This is the kind of island i want to live on - it’s so southern and all the houses on the island appear to be ‘cottages’ - not the monstrous mansions you see almost everywhere these days.
Harry decided go go back to the boat once he discovered i was determined to ride my bike up and down every street and even every back alley as not to miss a single cottage and/or out building. I love my bike. For Ann and Susie Lawrenson - you must know that there were gardenia bushes growing everywhere, like lilac bushes might grow and many seemed to grow wild. The air was fat with sweet scents.
This is the first marina we've come to that has a courtesy car available to boaters. We reserved it for a drive to dinner at the Driftaway Cafe - had a kale salad! Harry had a steak. And also had the car reserved the next morning for a ride to WalMart - Harry awoke excited about that! It felt rather strange to be in a car - we drove a couple of mile and stocked up on bottled water and breads and lunch meats. i cooked dinner on the boat.
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