Tuesday June 14, 2011

Cruising the Georgia Marshes Day .....

We awoke to another morning of thick smoke and haze in Delaroche Creek. There was ash covering the boat. The sun finally started to show through.

We got both anchors up at slack tide at about 8:30 and left our little hole in the marsh.

Visibility was poor until later in the morning. We had to contend with fairly strong tidal currents for most of the day as we traversed rivers and sounds. The charts for this part of Georgia look like Medusa's hair.

Our trip today took us from Delaroche Creek, through the Cumberland River, Jekyll Sound, Jekyll Creek, St. Simons Sound, the MacKay River, Buttermilk Sound, Little Mud River (very shallow at low tide), the North River and Old Teakettle Creek.

Jekyll Sound

North Jekyll Island

High Currents due to 9 ft tides

Pelicans turn green buoys white

Our critter event of the day happened when suddenly we were swarmed by dozens of gulls following in our wake. The only thing we can figure is that we must have churned up a bunch of sushi for them.

At around 15:30 we ducked into New Teakettle Creek to anchor in another marsh for the night. This time there was one other boat there. The folks were from Queen City YC in Toronto.