Day 297, Tuesday April 15th

Day 297, Tuesday April 15^th

We wake up to an overcast day in the marshlands of northern Florida.  The winds are light but expected to pick up.  The rain starts drizzling .  We schedule the day including a trip to town in the afternoon to do laundry etc. that we did not get done yesterday.  First we head over to Windward to activate our dataplan as Ian and Lynn have internet access from their boat.  While visiting Lynn reviews all their favourite anchoring spots and marinas north of Charleston on the ICW.  Lots of great information for our trip.  We head back to Jazzebelle for lunch, but sadly the winds are picking up so the afternoon trip to town is cancelled.  Instead we spend the afternoon playing games, doing French, and Dawson fixing our stantion at the stern that had an issue on our long voyage.  We were also supposed to go to happy hour upon the Sarah G, but about 5 o’clock which was the designated time, the sky opened up and it poured and the wind picked up some energy and we were all trapped on our boats not being able to go anywhere.

We eat dinner, and stare at the shore which is only about 60 feet away.  Because we are anchored in 20 feet of water with 7 foot tides, we have about 140 feet of chain out so our swing is almost 300 feet which basically is almost as wide as the creek we are in.

We spend another stressful night at anchor with winds gusting much higher than forecasted, probably highs of 35 knots.  Dawson heads to bed at 11:00, and Julie lasts about 5 minutes and takes her pillow out to the cockpit with a blanket to stare  some more at the shoreline.  Luckily it is a full moon so we can monitor our position fairly easily.

Sorry no pics today.

Cheers

Julie and Dawson