Headng to Isle of Hope

After Jekyll heading to Isle of Hope (Savannah, GA)

We are tardy in posting since we have been hiding out in the remote sea islands of where cell coverage is not “strong” enough to hook up my computer.  We enjoyed a few restful days before heading to the big city of Savannah.  Well actually, we are skipping lovely Savannah in favor of quiet Isle of Hope – a suburb where the marina includes loaner cars, bikes and old world mansions on bluff drive. Since the weather has been brisk – as in COLD for us Floridians – we did not suffer from the dreaded marsh bug attack other than the odd no-see-um.  The pictures of the marsh are fewer than the Victorian architecture but no less inspiring.  The flat lands are just hard to photograph from a boat. The vast sky and rippling water are separated by a tiny strip of yellowish brown stuff resulting in unattractive photos which do not capture the peaceful magic of this area. 

 

 The ICW is shallow in several spots here – we actually bumped along through Jekyll Creek but made it on a rising tide nonetheless.  The helmsman had to stay awake since this whole area is prone to high tidal changes of 5 to 6 feet which can create challenging currents and unexpected shoaling. I stay glued to my Ipad app from Garmin while in the pilot seat and perhaps too much as well when I am NOT (according to Steve).

 

 

However, we were lucky to have the old Ipad since our main chart plotter is finicky and occasionally just does strange things like drop the depth data or our GPS position. We do have another plotter, but it is handy to have that sweet Ipad up and running. I have to mention this because there was some reluctance on the Captain’s part when I purchased this “extravagance”! 

Rest is not really in Steve’s vocabulary, so you can be sure he worked out the heat gun at every stop and then there was the hose and heat exchanger he swapped out ONCE again.  He has the hose change down to less than 30 minutes.

Back at the Kennedy Space Center we were IMAXED, but in the last few days we have been WAKED…. Now this has nothing to do with celebrating a life long lived and everything to do with rearranging my frig, glassware and any tip-prone object on board. A few FAST boats fail to slow down when they run by us slow pokes and the result is rock and roll without the music (if you don’t count the sub-vocal swear words). We have been fortunate that our reflexes have been up to the challenge, but would like to post a HUGE no wake zone on our bumper!

 

 I include a few photos so you know I have not been sleeping the last few days.  The homes of Isle of Hope will be coming next post….