We were up early this chilly morning to leave Brunswick Landing Marina (BLM) by 0700. The weather gods have smiled on us again to give us several days of rain free, sunny, calm weather. So, with the words of Larry the "weather guesser" planted firmly in our minds we are off. 

Our stay at BLM has been great! We were surprised to get a wonderful fairwell send off at last nights cruisers get together. Its hard to believe that in all our trips back & forth on the ICW we never stopped here before, especially when so many of the cruisers we know, have. It was fun to hear that Captain Karl & Donna spent a week here, almost in the same slip aboard Heaven Sent. They ducked in to dodge a storm just as we did.

The underway went smoothly and we had the tide in our favor most of the day. We needed to get through the Little Mud River at 1/2 tide or better. This is the second of three trouble (aka Shoal) areas we will transit in Georgia. Our timing couldn't have been better as high tide was at 1302 and we entered the Little Mud at 1230.

With the recent rain the area has had most of the rivers & creeks here have been at or near flood stage for weeks. So, we thought, we shouldn't find any shoal areas, right! Well, even with the benefit of this extra water & high tide we still crossed a 7.5' area at the north end of the river. If we had been here, even at 1/2 tide, Calypso's 5' keel would have stuck in the mud, hard!

We stopped and anchored in the New Teakettle River at 1414. Although we could have pressed on to get the most of this four day weather window, we are well staged to cross both Sapelo & St. Catherine sounds tomorrow.

Oh, what does Larry, a 30 year Marine Corp Weather Forecaster say? 

How do you know when a weatherman is lying, his lips are moving...;)

Fair winds & Quiet Anchorages,
Jeff & Wendy