The good,the bad, the ugly

A week with a little bit of everything. After leaving St Augustine We spent the night anchored in the Fort George river visiting an old plantation. Awoke on Sat June 2 to be greeted T.S. Barry with 35+ wind and drenching rain. After an hour of worrying about the anchor holding we elected to make a run for Fernandina beach 3 hours to he north. Visibility was about 500 yards or less with lots of bends in the waterway to navigate. Joan steered and Larry worked the computer and Binocs. White knuckles glowing we arrived safely and tucked the boat into the remaining tight spot on the inside of a long face dock to securely wait out the blow. We attended Church Sunday at "THE First Baptist Church" (est. 18--something)and enjoyed it greatly. Monday we were off to Cumberland Island just north and walked around the ruins of the awesome mansions there. In its day would have put the pretenders in Palm Beach to shame. We continued running 6+hours per day up the waterway anchoring each night in comfortable side rivers. 8' tides and swift current make anchoring interesting and challenging but so far we have hade few problems.