Day 23

It’s Tuesday, departure day.  Jan is leaving to head for home, and Rousby and I are headed farther south.  For some reason we slept longer than we expected.  Jan wanted to get up at 6:00 and leave around 7:00, and Rousby and I planned to leave around 8:00 to let the tide rise so getting through Jekyll creek wouldn’t be an issue.  As it turned out, there was thick fog everywhere.  Jan wasn’t going to trek up I-95 in the fog, and we surely weren’t going anywhere.  Finally around 9:00 the fog had thinned enough on land that Jan could get on the road.  She said she had patchy fog all the way north to Savannah.  Here at the marina we still couldn’t see to the other side of the channel through the marina.  We ended up staying put until 11:15.  We had intended to go just north of Jacksonville but there was no way we could make it that far with as late a start as we had.  So our target became Piney Creek just past Fernandina Beach.  About 20 miles shy of our original goal.

Since we had time on our hands, I found a hot water heater on line through Amazon that I could have shipped… somewhere.  I decided that we would be in Titusville in a few days, maybe I could have it shipped there, and pick it up when we got there.  I called the marina to ask if it was ok to ship to them.  They eventually agreed to receive the package for me when they were able to find a slip for us to stay in with them.  So it looks like we will get hot water back after Titusville on the 21^st.  Of course nothing is ever as easy as it seems on a boat, so I’m sure we will need to procure necessary parts or bloody a couple of knuckles getting the old out and the new in.

When we finally left after 11:00, the going was smooth… for the first two miles.  Then we ran smack into a fog bank.  Couldn’t see a thing for a little while.  I followed the track on my chartplotter that we used to get into Brunswick.  It worked getting in, it will work getting us out.  Eventually the fog cleared and we were fine after that.  We made it through Jekyll Creek with no problem and worked our way southward to Fernandina Beach.  We are anchored in Piney Creek and all is calm.  Tomorrow we are headed for St. Augustine.  Since we didn’t make it to Jacksonville, tomorrows leg will be 20 miles longer than originally planned, so it will be a longer day, probably around 60 miles or so.

The fog bank as we were leaving the harbor.  Notice the highway bridge superstructure poking above the fog.

Today we traveled 46.1 miles in 6hrs. 10mins. Total distance is approximately 960 miles.

Until tomorrow…