Day 3- Saint Simons, GA to Kilkenny, GA

 

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Another beautiful pre-dawn start to chase the tides.

You see a lot of this when traveling through the swamps of Georgia.

This chart, that's sailor talk for a map, shows the really shallow water in red. That area is known as Mud River and was the reason we departed before the sunrise.

We had a fleet of 3 boats traveling behind us today, expecting us to lead them safely through Mud River. Mission accomplished. No grounding of boats today.

Oh excitement, we see civilization next to the swap! The swamps really do look similar the whole way. We did watch dolphins, everyday. Of course taking of good picture of them was not allowed.

Then we saw this small, white dot coming towards us.

It just kept getting bigger and bigger.

Not just another cruiser, that is boat talk for people who live on their boats, but an actual cruise ship. It looked too wide for the narrow ICW!

An American Cruise Lines ship, American Eagle.

Only carries about 100 people.

As we get closer to Kilkenny nicer homes start to appear.

These markers keep us in the deeper part of the ICW
and provide resting spots for birds.
Nice of the Corp of Engineers to do this, huh? 

Today's view also included a blimp and later a bald eagle. Pictures of each are stored as memories since they were not adequately captured by camera. Sorry, have to leave some things to your imagination or give you reason to go on the Loop yourself. 

(Paul here)...The destination for the day was Kilkenny Creek Marina.  I find this to be an iconic ICW institution.  I first stopped here in 1995, following the concise directions on a dark, foggy night.  The voice on the radio told me to "Just stay in the middle of the creek, you'll see our Budweiser sign."  Thank goodness for GPS because the Budweiser sign is now gone.  I am in the archives of the database, however.  The current searchable database is a spiral notebook.  Since this new, high tech item was launched in 2017, I can flip back through the pages and see that "Snow Goose" stopped there multiple times, either northbound or southbound, or both.  And this is aboard three of my boats, the Catalina 387 sailboat, the Monk 36 trawler and now the Nordic 37.  The notebooks that show two of my other boats are in records that have been archived.

I commented to the boats that followed us all day that I wanted to get a mooring spot closest to the Tiki Bar and swimming pool, of which they have neither.  I think 'rustic' is the polite term, but I really look forward to being there.  No 'amenities', not even any cleats on the dock, just stubs of 2X6 boards.  You need a flashlight to safely get around back to the 'facilities' during the dark hours and I was almost disappointed when not a single thing scurried for the cracks when I turned on the light!  

I love this place!

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