We spent a few more days in Beaufort. Walked in for groceries, picked up our Amazon packages and Met Ed and Cathy for lunch. Nice weather and pleasant relaxing days.
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| View from anchorage at high tide |
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| Same view at low tide |
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| Beaufort, SC museum in old arsenal - we did not pay and go inside |
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| Beaufort, SC, National Cemetery |
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| Had nice lunch with Ed and Cathy from What If |
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| Nice house along the waterfront in Beaufort, SC |
We left on Wednesday, stopped and filled up the diesel tanks and headed out into the ocean. Nice sail, with light winds at the start, but building up to 17 or so. Came in at St. Simons Sound inlet. Sailed 93 miles of the 107.37 mile trip.
Fort Frederica is an old town and fort on the Frederica river. It is a National Park, which is free to visit, with nice visitor center and outside area, that has some lovely Live Oak trees, planted in 1950 by the Park Service, as all the old ones were cut down for shipbuilding back in the 1800's.
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| Kris standing by partial remains of armory |
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| One of the largest Live Oaks on the site |
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| You can see how large the trees are by Kris standing next to the trunk |
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| Old cannon pointing at Charm anchored in river. |
Our friends Duane and Karen on Sojourn were motoring south on the ICW after a 2 day offshore passage. They were kind enough to take a take a 4 mile detour off the ICW to come join us for homemade pizza on Friday. We hope the pizza was worth it. Always good to see friends.
Looks like a storm is coming our way for this week.
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| Forecasted low pressure with high winds (in purple) hitting Florida and Georgia on Wednesday. |
Our insurance policy will not cover us south of latitude 31 during a "tropical" event. The weather forecast calls for a strong "tropical" event coming this week, so although we would like to move south, we wont, as we are very close to latitude 31 now. With the upcoming strong winds, we searched for a good anchorage with protection, but unfortunately, most anchorages around here on on rivers, with strong currents and are fairly narrow. That means when the wind blows opposite or perpendicular to current the boat swings oddly - which is fine for lighter winds, but a real pain in heavy winds.
So we made the very difficult decision to get a marina in a protected area for Monday to Friday, until the storm passes. We hate spending the money - but sometimes you just got to do it. We will focus on some projects, and just hang out with the expected 3" of rain the storm is expected to bring.
Don't ya just love the different views at high/low tide? Something mesmerizing about the process. Thanks again for the pizza and conversation! Definitely worth the 4 mile detour! We'll come back to that anchorage sometime when we can spend some time at the fort. We're running ahead of the storm just like you are!
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